Re: Package creation with GNU tools

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   There are programs that don't follow these GNU standards.  For
   those, something like the BSD ports system is useful.

Something like the BSD ports system is also useful to build the whole
GNU system in a coherent manner.  I wouldn't wish anyone to run
"./configure && make && make install" for 300 projects...  And then
remebering all special options one might wish to pass to these
programs.  This is the problem the GNU system creator to solves.

Infact, it defaults to running "./configure && make && make install"
for all programs, unless the person writing the ports Makefile
specifices something different.  So a ports Makefile for a typical
project following the GNU standards looks like this:

,----
| NAME = hello
| VERSION = 1.0
| 
| include ../../MK/gar.mk
`----