On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:05 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 11:15 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Many packages dump their aclocal files in /usr/share/aclocal, but really
> don't need to require automake for normal usage. Should all of these
> packages also own /usr/share/aclocal, or should it get moved to filesystem?
Seems like a decent idea to move to filesystem.
Can we please not change our stance on this every other release ?
I've added tons of Requires: automake for this exact reason.
And it doesn't seem like a big burden for a devel package to require
automake. If we are not talking about devel packages, then that would be
the thing to fix...