Source packages appropriate by default?

[Dylan McCall]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Dale Amon <amon at vnl.com> wrote:
> Source is an educational tool.
> Learning command line is a lesson in taking control of your own computer.
> Kids explore.
>
> Make sure J Random's computer is full of things to intrigue and
> lead a 13 year old to the power of the source.

Personally, I use apt-get source for one thing: the little note that
tells me which bzr branch I can use, instead. (There's probably a
better command for that, but I don't know what it is). Using the bzr
branch always works better for me. It's easier to keep track of my
changes and submit them (instead of remembering when it's too late
that I'm working without any kind of version control), and I can use
bzr builddeb to reliably create an installable package with those
changes. There are also way fewer junk files. I get the source, and
that's it, instead of a bunch of different tar.gz files that are going
to be entirely meaningless for someone who is just exploring the
system ;)

Dylan