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(I was heavily downvoted). What I was thinking is: as opposed to just running your built-in package manager yourself, to upgrade your system to the latest vers

(I was heavily downvoted). What I was thinking is: as opposed to just running your built-in package manager yourself, to upgrade your system to the latest version of all the packages it might require.

wtetzner 7y ago
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 7y ago
  I think they were talking about projects that tell you to run `make install`, which I agree is less than ideal.