egcs-970828: Some nits

Wolfgang Schludi schludi@ra.syscomp.de
Thu Sep 4 00:30:00 GMT 1997


> From: Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com>
>   In message < 199709030345.XAA26447@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl >you write:
[...]
>   > - Please don't bundle this much stuff into the distributions, you might as
>   >   well assume people are able to get texinfo &c on their own.
> I disagree.  The more self contained the distribution is the more likely it
> will work out of the box, which makes it more appealing to most folks.
> 
> Including texinfo is actually smaller than including all the .info* files.
> 
Jeff,

I also dislike the fact that installing egcs "corrupts" my
rpm-database (yes, I prefer installing the "original" texinfo package)

Why not let the user decide whether additional tools should be
installed? (perhaps with one or more configure- or make- flag)

Wolf

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