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		bluejekyll on July 17, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust Of course there are many more, but if you could build the one true package manager for all the major OSes, my guess is that the smaller ones would join the fray.

pjmlp on July 18, 2017 [–]

Not really, because it would meant that their semantics weren't accounted for.

As an example, IBM just released yesterday a new mainframe model.

z/OS is a totally different animal compared with POSIX based OSes or Windows, starting by the file system, catalog based.

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