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I was building an Autopackage of XChat today when I noticed this strange message from ./configure:

…
checking argz.h usability… yes
checking argz.h presence… yes
checking for argz.h… yes
checking limits.h usability… yes
checking limits.h presence… yes
checking for limits.h… yes
…

Umm…shouldn’t you first check to see if the file is there, and then see if the header is useable?

Anyway, the user response to Autopackage 1.0 seems to have been really good so far…there have, of course, been the folks who just seem to “hate” Autopackage just because it is. My favorite quote:

I REALLY hope that Adobe won’t do that because autopackage is one of the worst things at all in the Linux world today.
[…]
autopackage undermines EVERY distro’s native package management and is MORE difficult to use than anything else because it will sooner or later break every system. It doesn’t integrate with anything, it doesn’t handle dependencies, it installs stuff into /usr which is strictly reserved for native packages instead of installing to /usr/local, it is very, very unfriendly to users and difficult to use and it requires users to install third-party stuff in order to even install the package which is absolutely not acceptable.

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?7@507.EkAkegVXdwE.1@.3bb9df0b/0

/me sighs

EDIT :: Oh, if you do want to read the thread, then use BugMeNot.

But overall, it seems like most people love autopackage!

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