Joseph Holsten on Nostr: I swear, everyone who intends to be a long term contributor to a unix flavor should ...
I swear, everyone who intends to be a long term contributor to a unix flavor should take the time to attempt a linux-from-scratch to a usable workstation. You just cannot appreciate how magical eg poudriere or any other automated package build system is until you’ve burned weeks(?) of your determining dependencies and ./configure&&make-ing the infinite package builds and twiddling with failures.
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