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Eric S. Raymond / autodafe · Tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools. (gitlab.com)
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[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My point was that packagers should use straight up VCS and run all build tools instead of relying on partially pre-built tarballs uploaded by the upstream maintainers.

[–] Corngood@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Oh yeah, that was pretty much the point I was trying to make too.