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Date:      Tue, 9 Jul 2013 10:27:31 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, Robert Millan <rmh@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: libutil in Debian
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On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> wrote:

> Maybe there's a way to make this work since our system is tightly
> integrated.
>
> Have you looked at what happens with autoconf/automake?  How bad does it
> look from that PoV?  Are there a ton of scripts that pull in libutil?  Or is
> that only a small portion of the base?

There are a boatload of autoconf scripts that know libutil is where
you get all the BSD bits.  There's an extensive history here.

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Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV
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