Re: USE flags ??
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:46:38 -0700, Paul Johnson
<baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> wrote:
> Well, you could always do apt-get source <package> and build your own
> debian packages with your custom-made Makefiles. How to do this for
> anything other than the kernel package is a bit beyond me, though, as
> software that performs significantly better with optimizations is
> already compiled for the various sub-architectures.
You don't just mess with USE flags (or the build process) for
performance - e.g. you may not want to have x support in emacs, but
the debian emacs package has them and thus pulls in xlibs etc. etc.
Pulling the emacs source, the build-deps and modifying debian/rules
would allow you to build it w/o X, but it wouldn't modify the package
dependencies and the build-deps I think would pull in various X
things.
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Jon Dowland
dowland@gmail.com
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