Benefit of source packages?

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Subject: Benefit of source packages?
From: Joel Konkle-Parker <jjk3@msstate.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:30:13 -0600
Message-id: <[🔎] 40119265.3080408@msstate.edu>

I'm curious: what's the benefit of source packages? Do they allow you tooptimize the package for your system like Gentoo does? Are there anyother reasons why they're "better" than regular packages?



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