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Too much choice

Too much choice

Posted Jan 24, 2008 21:07 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Too much choice by jhs
Parent article: Fedora developers on PackageKit

autotools is almost unneeded now, the staggering differences among Unix systems are very much non-existent among Linux distributions. And, given the right tools, building one's own RPMs is not that hard. Sure, following the packaging guidelines for one's distribution and creating a package acceptable for official inclusion is another pair of shoes.


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