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
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