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Tag: source-package-management

Gentoo Portage, Ebuilds, and User-Selectable Software Variants

Gentoo's Portage system made source-based package management unusually configurable through ebuild recipes, dependency atoms, USE flags, slots and the emerge dependency resolver.

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