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Cc: 'Tom Judge' <tom@tomjudge.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org,
	Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com, 'Michel Talon' <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
Subject: Re: DPS Initial Ideas
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Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> writes:
> You may want to look at some other Linux distros. The packages system
> dates to about the same era as rpm/debs. The package system is much,
> much more manageable than them. On the other hand, most Linux distros
> have moved beyond those tools, to things like yum, apt-get and
> up2date. Those incorporate the facilities that rpm and debs are
> missing in a higher-level tool, and I think they are slightly more
> manageable than freebsd packages.
>
> As far as I know, none of them handle updates from source at all. In
> fact, dealing with sources seems to be a noticable weakness for them.

apt-get --build source <package-name>

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