A GNU Arch Handbook

1.1 Why build your own?

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Arch is designed to be easy to build and highly portable (at least among unix environments).

Building-your-own enables keeping up with latest improvements

Your revctl system is "essential infrastructure" --- if you can rebuild arch from sources on-demand, that's one less binary you are dependent on just to get anything done.

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Copyright

Copyright (C) 2005 Tom Lord (lord@emf.net)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this software; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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