On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:00:14PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:43:57PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > Why not allow Source only packages ? > That will win nothing. You can't use apt-get on them, have to rebuilt > and have them twice locally.
$ apt-get source -b foo # to get source and build There isn't a `get source, build and install' option afaik; and build-depends aren't implemented yet; but still. There's no reason why you can't store just the rebuilt .deb or just the source locally, either, afaict. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.'' -- Linus Torvalds
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