On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:43:38PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:08:18AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote:
> > It turns out that when I hand-installed the slimp3 server last fall, I
> > never got around to writing an init script for it, so it didn't start
> > up.  And there are some other things I hand-installed and need to
> > check.  But the stuff that came from packages just worked.
> > 
> > So Debian rocks.  It isn't the newest stuff, and it's still a bitch
> > to learn, but when they say stable, they mean it.
> 
> Yeah, I just wish they would invest in something like portage for those
> people who want an emacs without X or other things which would be nice if
> you could have the system recompile certain packages to your specs rather
> than depending on the way the maintainer builds the default package.
apt-get source <package>  ?

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