On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 12:06:51PM +0200, Swiatoslaw Gal wrote: > > > * "How do the distributions offer software configured by compiling?" > > > (question > > > from audience) > > > > As far as Debian based distributions go, i think they just ship the > > defaults as > > binary package. > > This is not quite true. There is `apt-get source' and few tools to build a > custom > package. However there is not much of advantage of this approach over > compiling > from sources (easy removal is all I can think of).
I have mentioned the apt-get source, archlinux PKGBUILD and Gentoo ebuild. I have recommended use of home-dir compiling.
