From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@msu.edu>
To: gsl-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: GNU Scientific Library (GSL) 0.8 is released
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:20:00 -0000
Message-id: <87wv75gzcz.fsf@pfaffben.user.msu.edu>
References: <E153KZZ-0005fe-00@sonny.eddelbuettel.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001/msg00182.html

"Dirk Eddelbuettel" <edd@debian.org> writes:

> > Dirk Eddelbuettel writes:
> >  > >      * Packages for Debian GNU/Linux: libgsl0, libgsl0-dev, gsl-ref-psdoc
> >  > 
> >  > Please add the actual links for these
> >  >    
> >  >      http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gsl/
> >  >      http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gsl-ref-psdoc/
> >  > 
> > 
> > Ok, but shouldn't they install it using apt-get or dselect?
> 
> Sure, that works as well, is generally speaking a lot easier and doesn't 
> require the links. 
> 
> But there are situations where you just want to grab just the .orig.tar.gz, 
> .dsc and .diff.gz to recompile them locally (e.g. when the build daemons 

That's what `apt-get source' is for.