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Juerd wrote: > Jarkko Hietaniemi skribis 2004-11-04 19:55 (+0200): > >>Does apt do source code package management? I don't think I will >>ever again want binary package management. > > > The packages are always binary thingies, but you can easily download the > source for a package and then make a new package out of it and then > install that. If you don't want to change/patch anything in between, > it's a matter of: > > apt-get -b source $source_package > > # untested, because I loves binary packages > > But if you really want to *enjoy* Debian, let your fear for binary > packages be history and try again. If everything goes as expected, > binary package management isn't bad at all. Then someone needs to do a clean re-port of apt to Mac OS X :-) Fink left me with a nasty aftertaste. > Juerd -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@xxx.xx> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack CohenThere's stuff above here
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