Despite the awful experience, I still like the idea of telling your
system to just download and install everything from source code. I'd
like to see an option for RH to do that. For example, instead of
rpm-ing from the first 3 CDs, rpmbuild-ing from the last 3 CDs.
Closest you could come is to rebuild the packages you already have installed to your arch target (or modify the RPM macros to get even more optimized with -mcpu=athlon-xp or -mcpu=pentium4, etc.). I did this under Red Hat 7.3 for i686. X11 based apps noticed the biggest improvement. Took nearly 4 days to recompile every single package on a P3/900 tho.
Downside is that I have to rebuild each errata when released before applying if I want to keep the "optimzied" system. I imagine this is one of many reasons Red Hat doesn't provide source based installs.
-Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc
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