Hi there everyone,
I hope you don't mind the rather subjective distribution sensitive
question:
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 at 08:00, A. M. Varon wrote:
>the usual websites, www.gnome.org for gnome, and www.kde.org for kde.
>It's freakin easy to check out helixgnome and kde2 on debian using apt!
I won't ask you what 'apt' does, as I'm sure I'll read it in some document
somewhere. Instead I'm curious as to how active the Debian packaging team
is, if there is any. I've been a pure RedHat user my entire "Linux life",
and have been using RPMFind to get the latest RPMs. I've been noticing
that the Mandrake packaging team (Mandrake Cooker?) seems to be more
active than RedHat's, so lately I've been interested in checking out
Mandrake 7.1 (or is the latest 7.2?). I'm an "update freak", if you may.
How dynamic do Debian packages come out into the open? And where can they
be found?
I have another concern: aside from being an update freak, I've got this
"thing" for recompiling my RPMs from their respective SRPMs with optimized
GCC CFLAGS. So far so good. Is there any counterpart to these SRPMs that
will basically allow me to rebuild a package with slight modifications
(CFLAGS, in this case) without having to rethink how the packager would
have packaged a particular software from its tarball? With RPMs we rely on
a SPEC file for these packaging instructions, anything for Debian
packages?
I hope someone can help enlighten this Debian-interested-but-RedHat-bred
Linux SysAd. Thanks in advance! :-)
--> Jijo :-)
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