<quote who="Karl Clements">
> I liked debian, especially apt but i couldn't work out how to get kde
> installed with it, not that i tried to hard, but i suppose it doesn't
> matter now as i droped kde (resource hungry bitch of a thing).
Run tasksel to install large chunks of related packages in Debian. Please
consider the countless hours of work that the KDE hackers have put into
their software so that you can just pass it off as a "resource hungry bitch
of a thing". Not kind.
> i like sifting through ./configure --help working out what options i need
> and can use then compiling from source sure it might take longer than
> using an rpm or deb, but then its tweaked for your system. I know people
> who have built their entire system by compiling it and have had a huge
> performance increase over those who used rpm's and deb's.
"Huge" is generally in the single-digit percent range (except for some very
specific cpu-intensive applications, not your general desktop fare).
Good to see they've spent all those clock cycles and weekends recompiling
their software to save so little! I thought you were talking about
efficiency...
- Jeff
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