XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: jedi@nomad.mishnet   
      
   On 2010-12-28, amicus_curious  wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > "Lawrence D'Oliveiro"  wrote in message   
   > news:ifb9uc$9a4$8@lust.ihug.co.nz...   
   >> In message , Homer wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Which is in fact the whole point, and indeed that toolchain and build   
   >>> environment is ready to go from the outset, without some convoluted   
   >>> setup process.   
   >>   
   >> Here’s a common case: wanting to do your own hacking on a package P that   
   >> comes with your distro:   
   >>   
   >>    apt-get source P   
   >>      # drops a copy of the source for P in the current directory   
   >>    sudo apt-get build-dep P   
   >>      # ensures that all necessary dependencies are installed for building   
   >> P   
   >>      # from source   
   >>   
   >> And that’s it—you’re good to go.   
   >   
   > Except that are still missing any understanding of what to do or how to do   
   > it, Larry.  What has been your most useful modification to, say, gimp?  Or   
   > Linux itself?  Or anything?   
      
       ....which I don't think was ever the point.   
      
       Windows just has to get to the point of being able to deal with the   
   sourcecode from the end user "I just want to install this thing" point   
   of view. It hasn't even gotten past the baby steps yet.   
      
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