[augeas-devel] gnulib

[Nicolas Valcarcel]

Thanks for your time on answering! I will try leave in there then!

On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 00:05 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Nicolas Valcarcel <nvalcarcel at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >         I've been testing and playing with augeas and it's really cool!
> > I will try to work on it in the short time after i get used to it and
> > get it as backed of a project i have in hands [1], for that i'm
> > packaging it for ubuntu and i have noticed you are including gnulib on
> > the source package and i was wondering why is it there and if it is
> > really needed to be there or i can drop it and just use it as build
> > dependency?
> 
> I advise you not to to do that.
> First of all, unless Ubuntu's snapshot of gnulib
> is less than about 10 days old, then it won't work at all.
> 
> Consider all of the other packages (including coreutils)
> that use gnulib.  Do their maintainers consider making
> gnulib a build dependency?  I certainly hope not.
> 
> gnulib is (deliberately) not like other libraries.
> 
> >         Also doing these i have noticed that gnulib is hard coded on the
> > configure script so it makes the removal more difficult, did you have
> > some tips in mind to perform this operation?
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