On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 05:05:25PM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 10:40:49PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > > After living with Slackware for too many years, I got pretty sick of > compiling everything from source. Sure, I still compile _lots_ of things > from source (and develop some of my own) but I prefer to just install the > Debian binaries when they're available. > > I do download source packages when I want to do some hacking, but then I > always want the very latest, to make sure the bugs I'm hacking haven't > already been fixed. By the time I get around to that, my CD is always > outdated. > > It's important to have source CD's, of course, but there's no need to > absolutely require everyone to have a source CD. Now I understand. :-) I do it in the same way. I install the binary und hack with same packages and look in the source. Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Certified Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@master.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "The Box said 'Windows NT or better', so I installed Debian Linux"
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