On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 03:19:06PM -0700, James Powell wrote: > It is diverse bur equally its overbearing to weed through sub-packages to get > the right package you need. > > Ports are packages from source. Gentoo, Funtoo, and CRUX all use packages > built and installed from source, and only meet dependencies for which you the > system administrator has choice over. If I want to build vim for xorg I can, > if not, so be it. It is still a package in the end, just more fine tuned. > > Plus, how is a blind "./configure && make && make install" bad? Yes, FHS > often requires files be in various locations, and that's fine, but prior to > final packaging, they can be moved and linked as needed. That's why you can > insert various arguments into ./configure.
If I wanted to compile every package from source, I would have used gentoo or FreeBSD with ports, not Debian or Devuan... There is no need to transform Devuan into Gentoo. There is already Gentoo for that. HND KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
