Re: Installing gnulib from git

[Reuben Thomas]

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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