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Autore: KatolaZ
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To: James Powell
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Oggetto: Re: [DNG] dng@lists.dyne.org
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 03:19:06PM -0700, James Powell wrote:
> It is diverse bur equally its overbearing to weed through sub-packages to get the right package you need.
>
> Ports are packages from source. Gentoo, Funtoo, and CRUX all use packages built and installed from source, and only meet dependencies for which you the system administrator has choice over. If I want to build vim for xorg I can, if not, so be it. It is still a package in the end, just more fine tuned.
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> Plus, how is a blind "./configure && make && make install" bad? Yes, FHS often requires files be in various locations, and that's fine, but prior to final packaging, they can be moved and linked as needed. That's why you can insert various arguments into ./configure.




If I wanted to compile every package from source, I would have used
gentoo or FreeBSD with ports, not Debian or Devuan... There is no need
to transform Devuan into Gentoo. There is already Gentoo for that.

HND

KatolaZ

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