Re: [dev] Re: Talk about suckless

From: Martin Kopta <martin_AT_kopta.eu>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 13:48:26 +0200

On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 12:06:51PM +0200, Swiatoslaw Gal wrote:
> > > * "How do the distributions offer software configured by compiling?" (question
> > > from audience)
> >
> > As far as Debian based distributions go, i think they just ship the defaults as
> > binary package.
>
> This is not quite true. There is `apt-get source' and few tools to build a custom
> package. However there is not much of advantage of this approach over compiling
> from sources (easy removal is all I can think of).

I have mentioned the apt-get source, archlinux PKGBUILD and Gentoo ebuild. I
have recommended use of home-dir compiling.
Received on Mon Oct 07 2013 - 13:48:26 CEST