Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 13:30, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 07:02:26PM +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote:
> [snip]
> > And when you're really bored, you compile something from scratch, it's
> > not like it's impossible just because you don't kneed to...
> [snip]
>
> And Debian makes this really easy too: apt-get source xxx ; ./configure
> --own-preferred-options ; dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -m$self ; su -c
> 'dpkg --install xxx.deb'. Ahh, where would we be without apt. :-)
Cool, now give me a way to do this automatically, that takes care
of build dependencies and let me define options in a configuration
file. Then gentoo users may be happy with debian.
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