Re: Why Debian

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 17:15 +0000, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> > > Is there a better distro for managing
> > > source-based in installs from upstream (and I'm not talking Gentoo,
> > > where Portage is a packaging system for source code - I'm talking
> > > semi-automatic management and updates from upstream source.  Any
> > > thoughts?
> > You'll still end up with some "package" concept
> True, but that's not an issue, it does allow you to install a "package"
> and this package then will download the source from upstream. You will
> be ask if you want to automatically let build the package, or if you
> want to configure it first.
It occurs to me to ask: is there anything like this for Debian?  (I know 
about checkinstall, but it doesn't "download source from upstream").

Thanks,

Miles Fidelman

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