Previously Remco van de Meent wrote:
> I don't know if other people feel the same, but I'd really like it if I
> could install source packages with apt too. Like 'apt-get install package'
> would install the binary package called `package', 'apt-get source package'
> could dpkg-source -x the corresponding package_version-rel.dsc in the
> current directory.
There are a couple of reasons why apt should not do this imho:
1 - there are no Packages-files for sources, so it would be hard to incorporate
in the apt code.
2 - I see no reason to burden the apt team with this, the GUI is much more
important at the moment. Anyone is free to code this themselves.
Wichert.
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