There is customizepkg in AUR which can greatly simplify and help. I agree that it is not practical to build everything(otherwise it will be a gentoo). However,what i have seen is dependencies are like A->B->C and C gets A added sometimes as dependency, in which case recompiling B alone should help. If it is 1 or 2 packages only, then build :) On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:10 AM, André Ramaciotti da Silva < andre.ramaciotti@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 01:54:10AM +0530, Raghavendra Prabhu wrote:
One thing I don't understand here is - why people crib that package B should not have feature X. If you don't want that, ABS is for that. There are plenty of packages which have additional dependencies like that mplayer(like smbclient) or vlc(hal :) or lua).
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The problem is that using ABS is impracticable if you have a big number of custom PKGBUILDs.
OTOH, having packages with minimal dependencies isn't so great. During the (short) time I've used Gentoo, I noticed the consume of RAM is a little lower, but there isn't a big difference in performance. The problems arise when you compile packages with way to minimal dependencies, and later realize it was a mistake, and now you have to recompile lots of packages.