[arch-general] conclusion: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises

[Raghavendra Prabhu]

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 at 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).
> >
> > (snipped)
>
> 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.
>