"Simmons-Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would like to know exactly what purpose the source cds serve and who would >need to use them. I will only be using Debian for things like word >processing, email, the internet, etcetera and wouldn't be doing any >development or performing any major alterations to the debian distribution. >My question then is do you think that I have any need for purchasing the >source cds along with the main cds?
Chances are you won't need them often, at least. Source can be useful for finding out why a package behaves in a certain way, more than just development and making changes; however, if you need that, you can always download the source code from the Debian FTP servers. /etc/apt/sources.list: deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/ stable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
