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I don't get conan. Portage can already create a linux root in your homedir (see the prefix project) and has a huge package repo. What am I missing?

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Portage doesn't work across Windows, QNX, IBM i, IBM z, Android, iOS, macOS, mbed, RTOS, ClearPath, Aix, HP-UX, INTEGRITY, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, PS4, Switch, XBox, Tizen,...

In addition to what other response said it also lacked binary caching last I checked

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