Encouraging the use of multiple packaging systems on one systems, and the resulting problems (was: re: /usr/local)

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 21:24 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 01:11 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Does autoconf now have the ability to write spec files?
No. Autoconf doesn't have the ability to write spec files.

>  If so, that could 
> > simplify this issue for a lot of developers.
> > 
> 
> Yes - many projects have foo.spec.in
True, but it's not autoconf which generates them, nor does autoconf have
any knowledge on rpm nor any other packaging tool.

It's the developers having added support for rpm-specs as convenience
for those who have use for it.

Ralf