From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 18 21:20:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A01116A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:20:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from frodo.otenet.gr (frodo.otenet.gr [195.170.0.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AB5B43D1F for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:20:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b220.otenet.gr [212.205.244.228]) by frodo.otenet.gr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5ILJbXU003139; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 00:19:46 +0300 Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i5IKZG8N019301; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:35:16 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i5IKZGt6019300; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:35:16 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:35:16 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Patrick Useldinger Message-ID: <20040618203516.GA75213@gothmog.gr> References: <40D336A0.5020803@vo.lu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40D336A0.5020803@vo.lu> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any use to build from source? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:20:34 -0000 On 2004-06-18 20:38, Patrick Useldinger wrote: > > So, my question is basically: did you, in your experience, find that > compiling from source *really* has any serious advantages that make up > for the time it takes? Before I answer to this question, I cannot help noting that you don't *HAVE* to compile everything from source. In fact, if you install a RELEASE version of FreeBSD and use pkg_add to install the binary, precompiled packages of just the applications you are going to use... there is absolutely no need to rebuild anything from source. Well, at least, you are not obliged to. Now, some of us -- actually, I feel that this is a large percentage of the FreeBSD users, if the amount of questions posted here on this list is of any significance at all -- a great percentage of us likes trimming our installations; we like building our packages with the exact options and feature sets that *we* prefer. In such cases, having the ability to build from source is absolutely marvelous. IMHO, compiling a program to include _exactly_ the parts that you want it to have is incomparably better than loading up a large 'framework' and hooking into it with prebuilt modules at runtime. - Giorgos