Am 26. Sep, 2001 schwätzte Thomas Mondoshawan Tate so:

> My own brew. Although technicially it's Linux From Scratch, but I've made so
> many changes to it I'd hardly call it such. The reason: less bloat, less
> dependencies, it runs what I want and not what the creators want, and
> upgrading portions of the system isn't as time consuming as it would be
> under a package based system. Eg: if I need to update libc, all I have to do
> is download, ./configure, make, make install, and I'm done -- no broken
> dependencies anywhere. Albeit, this kind of distro is not for those with
> heart conditions or those who are new to Linux since it's source-level
> "package management" feature requires a pretty heavy understanding of how
> the packages fit together.

Install the base system.

Decide what you want.

Setup sources.list.

# apt-get update
# apt-get install <devel_environment>
# apt-get install pentium-builder # forces pentium optimized compilation[1]
# apt-get -b source foo # automagically builds foo from the source package

If that bitches about something not being available, then:

# apt-get -b source something

There's also 'apt-get build-dep foo' that will get the binary packages
needed for build dependencies.

ciao,

der.hans

[1] Certainly things could be tweaked for auto optimization for other
environs as well.
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