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		wtetzner on May 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a se... Makefiles are used for more than package management. In fact, it doesn't seem very common to use them for package management. Maybe I'm missing something?

PyroLagus on May 14, 2019 [–]

I think they were talking about projects that tell you to run `make install`, which I agree is less than ideal.

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