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Re:The Checklist (2007) by yummyfajitas on Friday December 16, 2011 @10:00AM (#3360859)
True, though I generally treat such checklists as a code smell. Ideally all the items should live in your makefile.

[edit: added emphasis to the word "ideally".]

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Re:The Checklist (2007) by hello_moto on Friday December 16, 2011 @10:33AM (#3360955)
Sometime some type of technology does not not lend itself to 100% automation. So there will be certain steps that would require a bit of human intervention.

Of course, we all wish that all software is written according to the UNIX philosophy.

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