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[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 12/14/10, Russel Winder <russel at russel.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 21:20 +0100, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> Yeah, it's a PITA all right. You could download a project, and it
>> could list a dozen library  dependencies in a text file. So now you
>> have to spend hours searching, downloading, reading manuals and
>> compiling libraries (not to mention having to download any extra
>> dependencies for those libs as well, and any tools used in the
>> building process), and finally configuring the app to use the compiled
>> libraries. And when the libs won't compile.. bleh! It's typical for
>> many open-source C apps that I've tried compiling.
>
> But isn't this exactly what Apt and Yum are for?
>

Yes, but I'm talking about having something platform-independent.