Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2483 mails)

[Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@xxxxxxx>]

j debert escribió:

> Yes, I am quite painfully aware that SuSE is a binary distro. It's
> rather evident given the slightly more than slight difficulty in
> obtaining sources that is getting slightly more difficult with each
> release.

do you think it is difficult to zypper source-install <package> ?

> Ummm... How would you know whether or not building from source would
> have a noticeable benefit for me? 

Im in fact, sure it doesnt, except for some very specific components,
different compiler options and optimization levels have already being
tried with only a marginal _overall_ improvement.

> (Actually, I have had to rebuild quite a bit from source to replace
> SuSE binaries. It's a PITA.)

Why ?

-- 
"We have art in order not to die of the truth" - Friedrich Nietzsche

Cristian Rodríguez R.
Platform/OpenSUSE - Core Services
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH
Research & Development
http://www.opensuse.org/