On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 11:23, Dylan Hardison wrote:
> Not to mention debian has source pages
As does RPM (.src.rpm).
> and apt-fu allows one to easilly install things from source,
> even apply patches.
Not sure about the APT-RPM capabilities yet (or YUM) to do the same.
But I have fetched sources and built them before.
> One can also change the compile flags.
As can RPM (from .src.rpm).
It's as I said before. If you build from source, with a "ports" distro
(e.g., Gentoo), you are still at the mercy of the "ports maintainer,"
just like a "packages" distro (e.g., Debian, Fedora) with its "package
maintainer."
"Ports" distros just force building on you. "Packages" distros are
typically installed from binary. But "packages" distros can be quite
optimized -- e.g., Fedora is i486 ISA, i686 optimized with all
extensions supported as by package that uses them.
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