-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > [Compile from source] > > Question: does this really improve performance?
A little. How much depends on the package. Remember that maintainers will compile with -O2 and other optimisations, so all you gain is arch specific optimisations. For some applications these might be as much as 5%. The real benefit is you can pass configure extra options without losing the advantages of a centralised software database. > If compiling locally does improve > performance, is there a way I can use these src urls to do it within > Debian? Yes, but it isn't as easy as portage. You can use the program turtle (the Hurd autobuilder) to automatically download and recompile software you want. It will effectivly create a local mirror of a remote repository where everything in that mirror is compiled locally. It wouldn't be hard to script it to do the equivilant of a dist-upgrade each night. You'll run into a few hassles when installing new software since your sources.list will point to file://. Corrin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6d-cvs (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE8i+uui5A0ZsG8x8cRArsQAJ9g3IV0lfhju54n4FibyUWPIgCZnwCgm7Ci JyKrm9ihTCo5AaQniegKtnM= =rU5O -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
