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		ComputerGuru on March 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua I come from FreeBSD where we have an amazing package manager but a “keep it lean” mentality. If a package isn’t on the package manager (the repo is great but nowhere near as expansive as Debian or Fedora) or if I want to build from source, I shouldn’t need to install such a huge system dependency.

wruza on March 15, 2020 [–]

Oh, that made me nostalgic of that portupgrade-oniguruma-ruby 20+ minute dep build phase.

ComputerGuru on March 16, 2020 | [–]

In case you’re not aware, the FreeBSD package manager switched to binary packages a while back. No more compilation unless you want to change from the defaults.

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