Joe writes: > Sure, you can compile things yourself, but then you have to do all the > dependency checking yourself Download the Debian source package. Run 'apt-get build-dep <package>' to install the build dependencies. Edit the source to taste. Edit debian/changelog and up the version number. Run 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc' to rebuild the package. Install your optimized package and be happy. -- John Hasler