On 5/3/07, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Joe writes:
> Sure, you can compile things yourself, but then you have to do all the
> dependency checking yourself
Download the Debian source package. Run 'apt-get build-dep <package>' to
install the build dependencies. Edit the source to taste. Edit
debian/changelog and up the version number. Run 'dpkg-buildpackage
-rfakeroot -us -uc' to rebuild the package. Install your optimized package
and be happy.
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John Hasler
This is useful if you're planning to have just a few packages compiled
by yourself. If you plan to have most of the applications with custom
configuration/compilation, then a binary distribution might not be the
right thing, and maybe a source based distribution might be of a
better taste (eg: gentoo or sourceMage).
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Javier
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