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by infofarmer 1754 days ago
Dreamt of building this type of automation back in my FreeBSD ports committer days. 90% of package maintenance is repetitive routine. Glad now that GitHub has a much bigger share of the market, people are making more progress.

Oversight and manual review still needed for many good and obvious reasons — something lacking or missing in leaner package management systems like the ones built into languages.