Re: Compile Question
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:01:40 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:49:30 -0600
> Telly Williams <twilliams001@elp.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Telly,
>
>> I wanted to know if some of you find it better to compile your
>> programs or just apt-get install them? I've been thinking about just
>
> A mixture of both. The bulk of software here is installed from .deb
> packages, using $preferredpackagemanager. There are half a dozen or so
> programs that I prefer to compile myself because the .debs are a bit
> too far out of date, or use compile-time options that don't suit my
> needs, or even that I need to patch myself.
>
>> compiling from now on since it gives me more options. Thanks.
>
> You'll give yourself a big headache; Doing system upgrades purely from
> source is time-consuming, to say the least.
>
My son uses the gentoo distribution, and he loves it. Since all
packages are provided in compile-it-yourself source form, gentoo's
excellent package management system compiles everything from source.
He gets an extremely up-to-date system (I gather it's usually more
up-to-date than sid). It is a reportable bug if the gentoo package is
not as up-to-date as the upstream developers' release.
It took all night and several extra gigabytes of temporary storage to
install OpenOffice, though.
By the way, I use etch and try hard not to install anything that doesn't
arrive as a Debian package.
I'm installing gentoo on another partition,
for the occasional moments when I really need aggressive up-to-date-ness,
and having troubles. Xorg didn't autoconfigure properly.
-- hendrik
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