le jeu 17-01-2002 à 10:59, Franki a écrit : > I was wondering why none on the mainstream distro's do this? > > they all want to be the fastest out there, so why not release a distro where > on the kernel, rpm, and compiler and all depenencies for them are as > binaries, and everything else is a src.rpm, which with some changes, > MandrakeUpdate (or the install app) could then compile to source and install > that... > > I know that the differences between i586 and i686 is fairly small > performance wise right now, but every little bit helps right? and for > Athlons, which are gaining pretty fast in popularity, the differences would > be more pronounced wouldn't they? > > and the difference in performance would be increased as compilers got better > at optimised code... > > so why isn't anyone significant doing it? is it technically unfeasable?? > would it make an install take 5 hours?
You mean.. To compile XFree only, right? > anyone know why its not a popular approach? Maybe because it's really slow? It will probably take a night to compile KDE on most systems.. I don't know if everyone would support installing a whole distro (how much packages?) in not less than a week. Anyway, there is Gentoo.. Just my 0.02¤ :) -- Sylvain OBEGI Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 661913
