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Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source



Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 03:08 +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit :
> * Hector Oron <hector.oron@gmail.com>, 2010-09-15, 21:26:
> >  c) allow build depends on source packages, which it is probably a worst idea.
> 
> On the contrary, I think that allowing source packages to be installable 
> in the same way as binary packages is an excellent idea. Imagine you can 
> do:
> 
> apt-get install src:linux-2.6
> 
> which will install Linux sources into a standard location, or upgrade it 
> if it's already installed.

I agree this is a cleaner solution, but how do you ensure there are
sources (deb-src) referenced in the sources.list ?

Plus, these packages would (in the current state of affairs) lack a
description.

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