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[Les Mikesell]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>
>>> If you have look into %configure you can observe what I say.
>> Those flags configure the package for the defaults of Fedora. They aren't 
>> required to actually compile most software. Instead, they set distro-specific 
>> configuration such as optimization flags, security flags and some installation 
>> paths (such as the multilib libdir).
> Right, this is called "the art of packaging", and where the naughty details are lurking.

Now _that_ is the problem that should be pushed "upstream".  Make the 
distributions less incompatible and you wouldn't have to work around 
those problems in all of them.

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   Les Mikesell
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