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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can use pacman and makepkg for everything if you want. Alternative tools are for convenience.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

On the other binary distros I don't have to compile third party packages myself though. And on Gentoo I use ebuilds for everything and they are super-easy to write, especially if you have a similar package as a starting point.