[wplug] Building vs. RPMs?

[Joe Gallo]

Another benefit of compiling from source is being able to specify how a
package should be built, or what support should be built in.

An example would be whether to enable X, or gtk, or gtk2, whether to support
samba, or qt, etc.  This is auotmated in Gentoo with use flags, and can help
cut the dependencies of a package.  (If I don't compile it with support for
gtk, then it no longer depends on gtk, etc).

Also, my system is *so* much faster.  I can smell the rice burning from
here, over ssh.  : )

On 1/19/06, Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:
>
> Eric Cooper wrote:
>
> > Arch-specific optimization is the whole premise behind Gentoo, for
> > example, but I don't think it's been supported very scientifically.
> > You'll find lots of subjective statements like "my system is much
> > faster" (for some value of "much").  There's probably an 80/20 rule at
> > work here, where tuning a few key packages gives you most of the
> > benefit.
>
> http://www.potentialtech.com/wmoran/source.php
>
> It's not a _lot_ of science, but it's all I've got ;)
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