Arch Linux

Ferhiord

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From: Moscow, Russia

Registered: 2007-08-14

Posts: 39

Arch from source

Has anybody built Arch from source? Does anybody build packages from ABS (doesn't install it from official repo)?

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bangkok_manouel

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From: indicates a starting point

Registered: 2005-02-07

Posts: 1,554

Re: Arch from source

you may find this thread interesting: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=48957

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Asgaroth

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From: Hesse, Germany

Registered: 2008-03-26

Posts: 58

Re: Arch from source

Does anybody build packages from ABS (doesn't install it from official repo)?

I do that for some performance-critical packages like mplayer or for packages which aren't up to date yet, but from which i need the new features anyway(wine and the nvidia-drivers for instance). Actually building something source instead of binary is quite simplified by using yaourt(search the forums), since you only have type "yaourt -Sb package" to do it, although this is currently broken for community packages due to the repo migration from cvs to svn.

I don't see much sense in doing that for all packages though, because the difference from i686 to your architecture should not be noticable in most cases, especially if you don't have a very new chipset. This in my opinion waste of time when compiling _everything_ was actually the main reason that made me leave gentoo for archlinux.

Last edited by Asgaroth (2008-06-18 16:57:47)

sniffles

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Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 275

Re: Arch from source

When rice is the sole reason for compiling from source naturally it's a waste of time. Arch is "i686" optimised but nobody around here seems to comment that there's pretty much 0 performance gain as far as regular packages are concerned. The only thing Arch manages to achieve is to not let i486 / i586 users run the distribution.

schivmeister

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From: Singapore

Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 960

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Re: Arch from source

We have come a long way. I don't see anyone running anything lower than a P3. Even third-world nations have low-cost machines with post-Y2K architecture.

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