> (*) their reasoning is that you can pass the same set of --with flags
> to every configure script in a large source tree without worrying about
> exactly which packages want which options. Perhaps that really is
> useful for building a ton of GNU tools together, but it sure hurts
> user-friendliness otherwise.
That should be easy to make configurable: they'd just have to add a
flag '--ignore-unsupported-options' to make this optional behaviour.
Maarten
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