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> In fact, portage is complete overkill and I refuse to allow it to be deployed |
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> at work. Check my posting history for the rationale behind this. |
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It is another 2 wrappers to facilitate matters, where there is already |
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is a huge stack of wrappers: |
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* gcc covers the linker |
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* libtool covers gcc and ar |
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* makefile configures it all |
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* to unburden from makefile writing, it is generated by configure |
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* configure is needed to be generated from configure.in |
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* some other generations here that I skip |
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* now there comes ebuild as the next wrapper to make building easier |
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* on top of all there is emerge |
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* really on top? What is the next level? |
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How many languages are involved only to generate and install a C |
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program! Maschine code, C, bash, m4, python, ... what else? How much |
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knowlege is needed to debug this huge stack! |
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I daily wonder all this still works so well. |
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Al |
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