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Subject: Re: broken setup.hint files
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 19:21:44 +1100
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----- Original Message ----- >
 > Make world is not a goal.
>
> I still think that's strange.  Any distro should be able to do make
> world.  It would not be difficult to start this up, and add packages
> as they get make world compliant.

I don't grok this. Take conflicting packages - they do exist - how do
you propose to make world on them?

I maintain that the ability to automatically make a package from the
commandline is desired, but that that and make world are orthogonal.

Rob