> > * "How do the distributions offer software configured by compiling?" 
> > (question
> >   from audience)
> 
> As far as Debian based distributions go, i think they just ship the defaults 
> as
> binary package.

This is not quite true.  There is `apt-get source' and few tools to build a 
custom
package.  However there is not much of advantage of this approach over compiling
from sources (easy removal is all I can think of).

s.

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