Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 17:53:27 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@rambo.simx.org> To: Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'make world' not so common Message-ID: <3CCD6C77.3030308@rambo.simx.org> References: <20020429144430.GA19741@lublin.t1.pl>
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Micha³ Pasternak wrote: > Hello, > > what advantages (and disadvantages) does recompilation (so common thing in > *BSD world) has over binary packages (deb/rpm, for example) ? > The reason I like to compile from source, is that it gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling knowing the program was built from source on the very same machine it runs on. It also give me the option to compile it with flags suited for me and me alone. Lets say I install a mailserver. I then have the option to compile it with support for SSL, or, if I choose to, withouth SLL. Sure, with a binary you can disable SSL, but the SSL support will still be in the binary, even if its never used. I can specify flags and compile optimization that suits my exact needs. If I run precompiled binaries, I will have to settle with the flags the person compiling the binary found usefull, which may or may not suit my needs. The disadvantages as I see it is only one. It takes time. Installing a package may take seconds, while compiling the same program from source is likely to take atleast minutes. Some horror examples like XFree comes to mind, where installing from package may take something like 10-15 minutes, while compiling from source on a modest machine is likely to take 10-15 hours. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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