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Re: possible to "apt-get -b source everything"



On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 05:08:03PM -0700, Rogelio Bastardo wrote:
> Apologies if this is not the best place to ask this question, but if 
> I've apt-get'd some packages and then later want to recompile those from 
> source (using something like apt-get -b source packagename), is that 
> possible?
> 
> And what if I want to do that for everything that I've already 
> downloaded?  That is, all of my packages are installed the "normal way" 
> (apt-get install package), and I'd like to, if possible, mass install 
> everything from source.

You have heard of Gentoo, haven't you? ;-)
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