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ANOKNUSA

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Registered: 2010-10-22

Posts: 2,141

Re: Package Manager to compile all packages as in Gentoo

I think you can customize the PKGBUILDs to add / remove features

--include-X
--disable-Y

but it would indeed involve quite a bit editing.

Yeah, that's what I was getting at: without the umbrella solution of USE flags, the time and effort required to edit and proof-read each script seems overwhelming.  With Arch it's more practical to edit PKGBUILDs for particular apps that contain unwanted features, rather than trying to rebuild an entire system during an update.

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rossmcd

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From: Zambia

Registered: 2011-04-13

Posts: 25

Re: Package Manager to compile all packages as in Gentoo

Wouldn't

yaourt -Sb $(pacman -Qq)

work?

You could also set up aliases:

echo "alias pacbuild="yaourt -Sb $(pacman -Qq)""  >> ~/.bashrc

Or you could add a --noconfirm flag to either to build automatically:

yaourt -Sb $(pacman -Qq)  --noconfirm

echo "alias pacbuild="yaourt -Sb $(pacman -Qq) --noconfirm""  >> ~/.bashrc

And to build for your CPU's native arch, edit /etc/makepkg.conf

...
#########################################################################
# ARCHITECTURE, COMPILE FLAGS
#########################################################################
#
CARCH="x86_64"
CHOST="x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"

#-- Compiler and Linker Flags
# -march (or -mcpu) builds exclusively for an architecture
# -mtune optimizes for an architecture, but builds for whole processor family
CFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -mtune=native -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2"
CXXFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -mtune=native -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,--hash-style=gnu"
#-- Make Flags: change this for DistCC/SMP systems
MAKEFLAGS="-j3"  # Number of cores in your CPU + 1
...