Heya, > I think that the herescript thing could be intersting for trivial > packages (./configure && make && make install), and the direct download > could be intersting if we want to provide an official way to handle > very big packages (think about the human genome, for instance).
Project move/die/fork/whatever and their URLs change. Or their servers are offline. Or they just don't ship tarballs of older versions anymore, because the new one is out. How would you rebuild a package then? Direct download of source would be a hassle. As long as Debian is able to ship the binaries of huge projects I'm sure there's enough disk space to ship the sources, too. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
