Package: apt Version: 0.5.3 Severity: wishlist It would be nice if, after build-dep was bug-reduced, a build-dep-src option was added to download build-dependancy source packages and compile them before installing - a 'stable' install could still have new source lines and latest software (apt-get build-dep-src xchat for example could download the latest glib/gtk+ source and compile them as well as xchat itself).
I can see this being a problem, however, if build-deps traced back to libc6 and you ended up recompiling all software on the box. How the build-dep system would manage this, I don't know, but it would be nice, when recompiling to add optimizations, if you could optimize more at once. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux Petra 2.4.7 #2 Sat Jul 21 14:01:17 EDT 2001 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.3-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.010703 The GNU stdc++ library
