Re: The use of source cds.
"Simmons-Davis" <simmonsdavis@frontier.net> wrote:
>I would like to know exactly what purpose the source cds serve and who would
>need to use them. I will only be using Debian for things like word
>processing, email, the internet, etcetera and wouldn't be doing any
>development or performing any major alterations to the debian distribution.
>My question then is do you think that I have any need for purchasing the
>source cds along with the main cds?
Chances are you won't need them often, at least. Source can be useful
for finding out why a package behaves in a certain way, more than just
development and making changes; however, if you need that, you can
always download the source code from the Debian FTP servers.
/etc/apt/sources.list:
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/ stable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free
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Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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