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 But try to avoid such unsupervised activity.  Make a script that will build a single package but don't chainload too many of them.
 
-## To optimeze building with makepkg ##
+## To optimize building with makepkg ##
 
 Read the references listed on this post about [[optimization|optimize.md]]