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Hi!

> I'm porting a program that uses a simple GNU make file, but I'm thinking
> about replacing the make file to remove the devel/gmake dependency.  I
> don't foresee many upstream changes that will make this an issue.  Is
> this a bad/good idea?

If the Makefile is pretty static and not changing much, one
can do that. But as upstream will probably never integrate that change,
what's the point ? Is the devel/gmake dependency that 'bad' ?

This probably depends on the application being ported, so: What
do you port ?

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