[wplug] Building redhat from source

[bgtrio at yahoo.com]

Is it not possible to rebuild a redhat install entirely from the source 
rpms, and optimize for your machine?

I'd be thrilled to let gcc just chew on some srpms all day and 
install them each time they finish recompiliing so that I can get some of 
this snapiness everyone is talking about.  No reason why you couldn't 
install the regular rpms first then let your computer recompile 
everything while it's idle.

Anyone out there interested in helping me write a script to do this, or 
better yet even done something like this before?

Bryon


On 23 May 2003, John Strange wrote:

> Well,
> 
> My first few times with the system was very time consuming, which is why
> I uninstalled it.  After going back to redhat it felt SO slow that I had
> to switch back eventually.
> 
> When I first build the system I usually do the emerge overnight, and
> unless you're building on an older machine it doesn't take that long to
> build while you are afk.
> 
> The best way I found to emerge things like X was using things like
> gnome, emerge -p gnome would do X, and quite a few other things in one
> big fell swooop.  Emerge is rough around the edges, but so was
> everything else in the beginning.
> 
> Be careful on going back to redhat, to me it's not the drive space bloat
> that kills me, it's the unresponsiveness I feel from when I've installed
> redhat vs. gentoo.  Redhat back in the days of redhat 4.2 felt snappy,
> it's lost that snappy feeling but with gentoo even running gnome/kde
> feels snappy once again.
> 
> Of course this is totally IMHO.
> 
> On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 14:24, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> > 	Just wondering - how long did it take you Gentoo users out there to
> > get to a system that (reasonably) had all the functionality you were looking
> > for.  For me, the honeymoon is somewhat over - I am happy to consider the
> > relative bloat of a, say, Red Hat install in exchange for the days of
> > emerging I'm doing currently.
> > 
> > 	I will say that it's been an awesome learning experience, but
> > there's still some rough edges to the emerge process that can result in a
> > little bloat (like chromium requiring kdelibs (USE flag is _not_ set) -
> > wassup with that).  I just don't have days to compile..... I've been working
> > on this thing on and off here at work, and it's taken at least a week of
> > attention to get to the point where I have X, fluxbox, and a few games &
> > apps....
> > 
> > Don
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