[Fsf-friends] Free Software CD's (Clean Distributions) and learning to reason

[M. Balakrishna Pillai]

On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 07:33:17AM +0530, Ramanraj K wrote:
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> The source code in tar or bzip files may be expanded in  /usr/local/src 
> into their respective directories.  A  simple script like the one given 
> below, can make and install from the sources:
> 

Try gentoo
http://www.gentoo.org

stage1 does excatly the same, use source code in the
/usr/portage/distfiles  or download the source code from any of the
mirrors into that directory compile the package and install on the
system.

with regards

M.Balakrishna Pillai