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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>> These are different concerns [building vs. packaging] best addressed
>> by different build systems.  The things you mentioned (mseinstall,
>> rpmbuild, dpkg) naturally sit on top of the build system provided as
>> part of the software source distribution.  I don't think they should
>> be merged.
>
> Not merged, abstracted away, packaging is a trivial concept comparing to
> compilation, optimization and linkage.

OK, then I agree with you.

> UNIX tools are so complicated, because it is a long standing tradition
> to have it as broken as possible. If C, make, autoconf & Co. are that
> bad, why dpkg should be any better?

I never said dpkg et al were any better; only that they address
different problems than the build machinery used during development of
the software.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.