They have their own debs to worry about :-) It's nice to have the debs available, though. It makes it easy to reinstall packages if you wind up uninstalling for some reason, and decide later that you want them. Also, in the event of an incompatibility, you have an archive of an older version of a package to revert to.
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 15:12, carmee wrote: > As I like to install from source I do a lot of compiling. > Probably my knowledge is not enough to become a maintainer > of a package. > > But I wonder: all this (CPU-)time to generate a .deb > archive just for myself? Can the maintainers use these one > way or another? > > -- > carmee > . > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! > Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. > Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. > www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
