Jon Dowland wrote:
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.
Did you try it or are you just guessing? Try it, I think you will be pleasantly surprised[though emacs isn't the best example since it already provides a nox package]. Just do apt-get source <package>, cd <package>, fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -d ... , and voila any uninstalled, 'optional' build-dependencies will be ignored and their corresponding packages will be left out of the depends of the resulting package.
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