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The Edit-Recompile Manager

A common claim I keep seeing repeated is that there are too many language-specific package managers, and that we should use a distribution's package manager instead. As an example, I opened the most recent HN discussion related to package managers, and sure enough the third comment was on this (very) dead horse. (But wait! There's […]

  • September 2, 2016