Re: Installing gnulib from git

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   >    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.

You do not need a internet connection to compile a project that uses
gnulib, the project will include whatever parts of gnulib it uses.