On Saturday 09 Jan 2010 10:47:09 am Arun Venkataswamy wrote:
> * To link against local libraries. The configure scripts are intelligent
> enough to find out what is present and what is not. For example, the
> BlueZ Bluetooth utils package (Debian 4.x) leaves certain parts like the
> pass key agent to be compiled locally (the C version)
> * Extreme cases - In a very security sensitive installation, you can audit
> the entire or portions of the source code before deployment.
> * If the software is dependent on hardware, in most cases, you will have to
> compile it yourself.
> * In some cases the binary package, for general usage might not have
> compiled in special features of the software (which can be selected in the
> configure script)
>
* and in many cases the available packages are b0rked. Case in point things
like libboost, mapnik, mod_tile.
* and especially in debian the available packages are pretty old
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kg
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