On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 09:38:39AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Friday 8 December 2000, at 18 h 51, the keyboard of Hamish Moffatt > <hamish@debian.org> wrote: > > > package. The makefiles obtain the original source off the net, > > Which is a big pain with FreeBSD: very often, the upstream souce moved or > changed its name and the download no longer works. Debian is a closure: when > the distribution is shipped, you can be sure to be able to retrieve everything If we were to use a system like this we could still use our release closure. I think we'd have a comparable sytem if we merely added build-dependencies to apt-get --source. I think eventually that will happen. Early revisions of the FreeBSD ports system didn't support dependencies either, but they were added, resulting in the closest thing to apt-get I've seen on another system. Dependencies are followed recursively and the necessary packages are built in the correct order. It works very well. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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