Re: sources of debian apps: is there a standard place?
Why do you want the source packages? For almost evry package you can find
a .deb, which is a lot esier then compiling.
I put my source code (only kernels actually) in /usr/src
Ron Rademaker
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
> I noticed when trying to unpack some sources to miscellaneous
> debian apps (setserial, silo) that I had to specify the
> destination (unlike installing binaries, which go
> to standard places like /bin, /usr/bin, etc).
>
> In RedHat, those source packages get unpacked into a standard
> /usr/src/redhat hierarchy.
>
> Is there any similar place in debian for these sources, or
> do people put them where they feel like? If I put
> them in /usr/src/debian, is that a Bad Idea? Where
> should I put them (probably my home directory or
> /usr/local/src, I'm guessing)?
>
> What do you-all do?
>
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