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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-09-26 10:08:02

1. Have a simple job to do. Figure out #Makefile will do the job.
2. Think a bit about portability. Makefile becomes slightly more complex.
3. You're finally done. It turns out that some stupid implicit rule in GNU Make fires and adds a `rm` at the end that removes part of the output.
4. Use #Meson.
Just an average #Gentoo day.
[UPDATE: Now I regret using Meson. If you do anything that's not 100% boilerplate, it just keeps throwing obstacles in your way.]

@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org
2025-09-24 12:43:41

I finally tried out a new cool feature of :gitannex: #gitAnnex: compute special remotes²!
Git annex is a ridiculously powerful git extension to manage large files. It remembers which file is stored on which remote. Compute special remotes now take this to another level by computing files on the fly. It's a bit like a