On Tuesday 24 April 2012 00:18:59 Michał Górny wrote:
> It's simply better just to assume: if user wants user patches, he/she
> needs to have necessary deps installed.

if the package doesn't ever run autotools itself, i think this assumption is 
fine.  set AUTOTOOLS_AUTO_DEPEND=no before inherting things and always run 
autotools if the user applies patches.  otherwise we penalize a lot of people 
who don't apply custom patches.
-mike