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> Ix is not Open-source

Surprising that a tool with a CLI focus and a home page that looks like a man page is non-free. Oh well. Thanks.

pb looks cool, though the node dependency makes it much more heavyweight than I think it intends.

Give a shout-out to the Author(s). They are quite responsive. One of them is on the verge of rewriting pb overall to leverage some nicer things that have been created since pb's creation along with making it even faster (despite the fact that, ime, it is already faster than most other pastebins (in the US)).

On closer look, it seems node is a makedep, not a runtime dep.

So I still need it in order to build it. People tend to forget that other people might want to build their software to package it for a distro, and would even like to run the test suite, and they use crazy amounts of build time dependencies that make it hard to do.

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