skalibs is a package centralizing the free software / open source C
development files used for building all software at skarnet.org: it
contains essentially general-purpose libraries. You will need to
install skalibs if you plan to build skarnet.org software. The point
is that you won't have to download and compile big libraries, and care
about portability issues, everytime you need to build a package: do it
only once.
skalibs can also be used as a sound basic start for C
development. There are a lot of general-purpose libraries out there;
but if your main goal is to produce small and secure C code with a
focus on system programming, skalibs might be for you.
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