On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 17:15 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Thanks all , thanks for the detailed answer but do you think compiling > is a good solution to go-with, except installing the package from > repository. i have heard that people always suggest to install > packages from repository not by compiling. i know repo should contain > old release but stable one however, for more option and newer releases > one should need to compile it from source. > > but my question is, what pros do normally ?
I very often compile software myself, but only if I've got a reason to do it. This isn't better or less good than using packages from the repositories. Reasons for me are helping a developer by testing software, to disable or enable options or because it's simply needed, e.g. to get new hardware running. Some people wish to add proprietary stuff to an application, that can't be included by the distro and some OS simply don't have binary packages or it's very uncommon to use those OS with packages. If you have got a very old CPU, you might need to recompile some packages, to get _less good_ math support. Last but not least, some people simply want to learn, just for fun. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1359639391.2149.18.camel@precise
