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Absolutely possible, with source distribution. It keeps downloads small, and upgrades (notionally) transparent. The downsides are that it's computationally expensive on the user end, in addition to storage bloat. Does the latest firefox depend on the latest llvm? Depending on how awful your hardware is, you might wait a day for those two packages to build.


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