[indiana-discuss] Brief (blogged) thoughts on packaging

[elw at stderr.org]

> hmmm... digging through the cobwebs of my memory, I recall making a 
> makefile which would build a package for you.  Edit the name and 
> administrivia, make, and you get a package.  The hard part about making 
> a package is not the assembly of the package, it is the integration with 
> the rest of the environment.

we have one of those here, too, loosely based on fbsd ports.  i suspect 
that they're relatively common.

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