On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:01:40 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:49:30 -0600 > Telly Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Telly, > >> I wanted to know if some of you find it better to compile your >> programs or just apt-get install them? I've been thinking about just > > A mixture of both. The bulk of software here is installed from .deb > packages, using $preferredpackagemanager. There are half a dozen or so > programs that I prefer to compile myself because the .debs are a bit > too far out of date, or use compile-time options that don't suit my > needs, or even that I need to patch myself. > >> compiling from now on since it gives me more options. Thanks. > > You'll give yourself a big headache; Doing system upgrades purely from > source is time-consuming, to say the least. >
My son uses the gentoo distribution, and he loves it. Since all packages are provided in compile-it-yourself source form, gentoo's excellent package management system compiles everything from source. He gets an extremely up-to-date system (I gather it's usually more up-to-date than sid). It is a reportable bug if the gentoo package is not as up-to-date as the upstream developers' release. It took all night and several extra gigabytes of temporary storage to install OpenOffice, though. By the way, I use etch and try hard not to install anything that doesn't arrive as a Debian package. I'm installing gentoo on another partition, for the occasional moments when I really need aggressive up-to-date-ness, and having troubles. Xorg didn't autoconfigure properly. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
