On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Karl Berry wrote:
Well, Debian packages snapshots of it. It's useful,
No, it is insanely wrong, defeating the purpose of gnulib and causing
impossible-to-track bugs due to out-of-sync sources. But let's not go
into that again, you can find the discussions in the archives if you care.
:) Well, I asked about it just recently, and the maintainer's main reason is
that it's not acceptable to have a package that requires an internet
connection to be useful. I agree that it's not a good way to use gnulib,
which is why I'm switching to using it from git.
ln -s /gnulib/checkout/gnulib-tool ~/bin # adapted as needed, of course
That's what I wanted; thanks.
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