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Compile QuestionThe past day or so I've been learning to compile different programs. It's now something that seems very easy, which I thought was very hard prior to this. 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 compiling from now on since TW -- Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:49:30 -0600
Telly Williams 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too far out of date, or use compile-time options that don't suit my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.
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/ _)rad never immediately apparent"
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On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:01:40 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:49:30 -0600
> Telly Williams 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 too far out of date, or use compile-time options that don't suit my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
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On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:40:13 +0000 (UTC)
Hendrik Boom wrote:
Hello Hendrik,
> My son uses the gentoo distribution, and he loves it. Since all
I occasionally look at Gentoo, with a slightly green eye. I've never
quite mustered the courage to dive in, though.
> 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
And that too, could be a problem for me; Occasionally, Debian Sid gets
"broken" and I wouldn't always know enough to be able to sort it out.
Especially if the problem meant I couldn't get on the 'net, because
with only the one machine available to me, I'd be completely unable to
seek assistance.
> It took all night and several extra gigabytes of temporary storage to
> install OpenOffice, though.
That's annoy my missus no end. She thinks my machine is on too long,
as it is.
> By the way, I use etch and try hard not to install anything that
> doesn't arrive as a Debian package.
I use Testing, and mostly use .deb packages, as I said. TBH, the ones
I do compile, I could probably get away with not doing so. It's just
that these few I like to be fairly up to date on.
> up-to-date-ness, and having troubles. Xorg didn't autoconfigure
> properly.
Which would be a killer for me.
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/ ) "The blindingly obvious is
/ _)rad never immediately apparent"
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On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:02:01PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:40:13 +0000 (UTC)
> Hendrik Boom wrote:
...
>
> > It took all night and several extra gigabytes of temporary storage to
> > install OpenOffice, though.
>
> That's annoy my missus no end. She thinks my machine is on too long,
> as it is.
>
you turn your machine off? ...blink blink...
/me wanders away muttering and confused...
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On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:20:52 -0700
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Hello Andrew,
> you turn your machine off? ...blink blink...
> /me wanders away muttering and confused...
:-)
Sometimes, I just have to bend to TOBAC's wishes.
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Regards _
/ ) "The blindingly obvious is
/ _)rad never immediately apparent"
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On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:25:20PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:20:52 -0700
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> Hello Andrew,
>
> > you turn your machine off? ...blink blink...
> > /me wanders away muttering and confused...
>
> :-)
>
> Sometimes, I just have to bend to TOBAC's wishes.
TOBAC?
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On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:59:42 -0700
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Hello Andrew,
> TOBAC?
Answered in my reply to Florian.
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/ ) "The blindingly obvious is
/ _)rad never immediately apparent"
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On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 01:49:30PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote:
> The past day or so I've been learning to compile different programs. It's now something that seems very easy, which I thought was very hard prior to this.
>
> 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 compiling from now on since
> it gives me more options. Thanks.
I'm entirely .debs except for gscpa (crappy webcam) modules built with
module-assistant and kqemu built from source, but only cause i haven't
bothered to install the deb yet. Once in a while if I'm hacking on
gnucash I'll build that from upstream source.
If you really want to compile everything and are doing this for fun
look at LFS (linux from scratch) or gentoo...
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