Re: [bug-gsrc] progress report - initial version in bzr

[Karl Berry]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the update.

    I plan to synchronise the version information with Nixpkgs-libre, to
    keep it up to date.  I have a script that does that.

I don't understand, but then, maybe I don't need to.

    Since it doesn't need a top-level makefile/configure script we are
    free to add our own (to handle anything like ./configure
    --disable-video or whatever).

I think the most important thing to support is configure
--prefix=/somewhere.  Probably that, and just about everything, can
simply be passed to the subdirs.  So the job of top level
configure/makefile would be to loop over all supported subdirs and call
configure/make for each.

Based on my experience with TeX Live, I expect it would also be
greatly appreciated if it was possible to say
  configure --disable-foobar
to explicitly disable building of any package foobar for whatever reason.

karl