On 27 Mar 2000, at 11:15, Bill Caskey wrote: > 1. I'm running on a laptop with a 1.3 Gb hard drive and I want the system > as lean as possible. By compiling, I can optimize for a pentium and eliminate > the debug/exceptions code. Smaller footprint.
Are you recompiling your entire Debian system, or just kde? Or might kde be your first step in recompiling? Are you recompiling from *.deb source packages and then recreating the deb binaries? Reason I ask: although I've just bought a new laptop, with lots of hard drive space, I have wondered how the Debian binaries are compiled in general -- for some lowest common denominator of CPU (386? 486?), whereas gcc could possibly do much better with the right switches for the Pentiums (I,II,III). Problem is that the thought of recompiling *everything* is a big daunting, nevermind time consuming. However, for laptops, it should be worth it. And there's something inside me which says, "why aren't you taking full advantage of your hardware...?" Kirk ---- Kirk Lowery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
