Re: pros/cons of installing from source
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yag wrote:
> Hi
>
> I would like to know whether installing from source rather than from the
> repositories has any advantage in terms of performance or something
> else. I didn't notice any difference when comparing mplayer's behavior,
> although compiling it myself gave me the choice of fine tuning the
> available codecs as well as installing the very latest version, for
> instance.
In my experience, it is usually a lot simpler to install the Debian
packages. They have already been formatted to work properly with
Debian, some of which are tweaked a bit for better compatibility.
Sure, you can compile things yourself, but then you have to do all the
dependency checking yourself (although most software comes with a
configure script to do this, they don't install the missing
dependencies) so sometimes you have to STFW for the right files and may
need to compile those first.
That is the main reason APT exists, to save people those headaches.
IMO, in most cases the small performance gain of self-compiling is not
worth the effort.
Joe
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