Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 09:14:02 -0700 From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jeremiah@sherline.com> To: "Michal Pasternak" <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl>, <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 'make world' not so common Message-ID: <001001c1ef98$e160ced0$a700a8c0@cptnhosedonkey> References: <20020429144430.GA19741@lublin.t1.pl>
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> what advantages (and disadvantages) does recompilation (so common thing in > *BSD world) has over binary packages (deb/rpm, for example) ? My real response is, what is the whole point of open source. If you don't have the source code on your disk, ready to be tweaked and compiled again, you will never use the source. People who live in the "binary only" world don't really take part in open source software. It is faster to install the binaries, and for some things, I do that. Of course with X, you don't want to compile it. But if one is running on such legacy hardware that buildworld takes more than 45 minutes, one probably needs to look into the fact that a Duron 1ghz cpu can be had for $35. And really, the recompilation concept used to be just as much a factor in the Linux world if you think about it. tar xvfz mysoftware.tar.gz && ./configure && make && make install These new binary packages are great for people who have such legacy hardware that compiling is a difficult option, and for people who are deploying a large number of machines (although I'd typically compile my own custom packages for such an operation), however there's no real problem with compiling if your hardware is up to date. And keep in mind, BSD has binary OS upgrades and binary packages as well. Any port should be able to make a package. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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