John Skaller wrote: > (a) it does not provide binary packages > (b) apt tools can't build from source > > The latter is exceptionally annoying (which I consider > a very polite form of what I'd like to actually say ;) > > Is there a tool which does that? > > I use Synaptic GUI tool, it would be nice if a tool > like that could build from source transparently. Have a look at apt-src. apt-cache show apt-src apt-src is a command line interface for downloading, installing, upgrading, and tracking Debian source packages. It makes source package management feel a lot like using apt to manage binary packages, and is being used as a testbed to work on adding source dependencies to Debian. It can be run as a normal user, or as root. If you want a convenient way to track updates to packages while preserving your local modifications, this is a way to do that. Note that I have not actually looked at it myself yet. It is on my todo list. Bob
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