Re: "make extract" and dependencies

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 09:25:00AM +0200, Jörn Clausen wrote:
> I just noticed, that a simple "make extract" will check all
> dependencies, and install them, if they are missing. Has this changed
> recently? Unless there is a good technical reason, I'd prefer to just
> look into the source of a package without too much of a hassle. IMHO,
> at least until "make patch", the current package directory should not
> be left.

The good technical issue is that it can limit the disk space used for
build areas to one source tree. Consider building something like KDE...
The rest was answered already.

Joerg