Re: pros/cons of installing from source

["Javier Vasquez" <jevv.cr@gmail.com>]

On 5/3/07, John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> wrote:
> 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

This is useful if you're planning to have just a few packages compiled
by yourself.  If you plan to have most of the applications with custom
configuration/compilation, then a binary distribution might not be the
right thing, and maybe a source based distribution might be of a
better taste (eg:  gentoo or sourceMage).

--
Javier