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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 22:28:03 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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   Corinna Vinschen <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: cURL packaging progress
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Robert Collins wrote:

> Kevin, I presume you will be creating a /usr/doc/curl-7.9.1/README file
> that at a minimum lists the configure options you used to allow a user
> to rebuild the package.. (I'm not sure that this convention is
> documented outside this lists archives).
>


I dunno if this is really a convention.  I do it.  But I'm not sure who 
else does -- I rarely download other maintainers' src packages... <sorry>.

I do recall on several occaisions folks have asked on the list "<NAME>, 
what configuration options did you use to build the <PKG> package?"

Of course, seeing a question on the list does NOT mean that the answer 
doesn't appear in the documentation somewhere... :->


--Chuck