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On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 03:54, Spider wrote: |
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> Imake to build, not to run. |
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There's a few of these, unfortunately. |
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> perl is used by most build systems, but very few runtime ones. |
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> can you name a single desktop application that can build without make, |
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> but that needs make to run? |
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Anjuta, but that's only because it is a developer package. Otherwise, |
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definitely not. |
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Another thing that is common is actually the Linux sources for your |
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running kernel. Though there are many good reasons for keeping it |
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around, once packages which require it to build are done, there's really |
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no absolute necessity for it. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Games Team |
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Is your power animal a penguin? |
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