Carlos E. R. wrote:
I assume that the Mac people have a method defined so that all those applications compile in the same way, a standard place to get the sources, dependencies, etc.
Or are they simply doing a rebuild rpm? Because that does exist in suse, too.
Have a look at Gentoo. It is a source-base distro that enables you to build everything from source and specify any amount of compile flags to fine tune your system to your heart's desire. They have a command-line interface (emerge) and some GUIs (e.g. portage). In my opinion building for source is the most useful when building a system with specific requirements or constraints (e.g. embedded system or old PC with limited memory and processing power). It is also a great learning process. For anything else, stick to binary-based distros. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org