On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:04:33AM -0400, Russell Francis wrote: > I am rather new to the list but, if you are thinking of new ways to > package and distribute a shiny new Hurd system I have a suggestion. > I used to use FreeBSD and I absolutely loved the ports collection! > You simply change to the directory of the program you want and type > make install. It fetches the source, builds it and installs it. It > was by far the easiest system to maintain ever. I think the > Hurd could benefit a great deal from a system much like the BSD ports > collection. >
This what apt-get does. When you type apt-get install <package> it downloads the binary packages and installs it and with apt-get -b source <package> it downloads the sources and build the package for you. Jeroen Dekkers