On Friday 05 January 2007 13:44, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
Source packages, and instructions on how to tune and rebuild them, are available for all of the binary distros I know of.
On Friday 05 January 2007 14:24, Luke -Jr wrote:
But it's bad practise to install from source on a binary OS.
Right, so you build the binary package yourself (similar to compiling) and install _that_, and stay within the benefits of the package management system.
With the source packages from a binary distro, they have all the files necessary to build as distributed, and you are free to adjust flags and features.