<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:enrico.weigelt@gr13.net" target="_blank">enrico.weigelt@gr13.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 15.04.2017 00:09, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:<br>
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> Developers would be expected to have autotools installed in order to<br>
> work with the former. But it makes sense to have the output of<br>
> autotools included with the latter, so that those who just want to<br>
> build from source, rather than do actual hacking on the code, can do so<br>
> without needing autotools.<br>
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</span>Those who build from source - mostly the dist packages - tend to do lots<br>
of patching. And then they likely have to regenerate everything.<br>
That's why many distros (or at least many packagers) always do that.<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Bad distros are like that...<br></div></div>