On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:07:51PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Greg Folkert wrote:
>
> >Thereby screwing up your deps. There is no reason to compile Exim 4.30
> >on a debian machine.
>
> Why are so many debian users so scared of something as simple as
> compiling exim?
>
> You really want to try slackware instead. Or any other distro that
> doesn't make people so utterly dependent on a packaging system, and
> completely scared of compiling their own versions of anything.
>
Sometimes there are reasons to compile packagese, also on debian
machines!
However, compiling and installing a package under debian is as
simple as installing binaries without breaking the whole
installation system (very powerful indeed).
See
apt-get -b source ....
apt-get build-dep ...
dpkg-buildpackage -b
and the new
apt-build
Cheers,
a.
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