General Debian setup question...

["Jonathan J. Lupa" <jlupa@csisolutions.com>]

First of all, Thanks to all who helped me get my exim-fetchmail working. I now 
only need to boot to windows for Quicken.

In any event, I'm curious if someone could give me pointers to docs that talk 
about organizing my system.  I started from 2.1 slink CDs that didn't have 
non_free, contrib, local, or other directories like that. So now I'm curious 
where on my system I should put debs that I bring down. (basically, so dselect 
knows they exist as well as the CDs).

I also have 2 Cds of source, and I was curious if there are "source packaging 
utilities" to work with those. I'd like to look at a few of the gnome utilities 
that seem less than fully implemented to see if I am qualified to lend a 
helping hand in that direction.

Either commentary or pointers on what docs to read would be of much assistance!

Thanks!
Jonathan Lupa
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