> > * "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.