Kyle> Karl M. Hegbloom writes: Kyle> This makes no sense to me. Including the vendor type does Kyle> nothing prevent applications from wildcarding matches Kyle> against that field. Changing the string from three Kyle> components to two will break code. If you want to type Kyle> less, just type 'configure' and leave off the other stuff. Did you follow the link I posted and read the paragraph about it? I'm not the one who made that policy. I don't know why they decided that. It really doesn't matter to me, personally, what goes in that string as long as XEmacs builds and I can edit, read, and do other neat things with it. I will just use "i386-debian-linux".