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apt-build
Optimize Debian packages for your system
Julien Reveret
<[1]shaddai@(...snip...)>
Julien Danjou <acid@(...snip...)> (english translation)
Introduction
Since the arrival of the very first versions of Gentoo, some people
have announced that "Debian is good, but that's not optimized for
[distribution in which you run make all the time]". And this is wrong,
you are free to recompile software you use on Debian, using the apt
system. Downloading a tarball, uncompressing it, running configure
scripts and make install, is an easy task for every Linux user, but
this is not adapted for the Debian package management system. [2]Stow
was a way which worked without too much effort, but compiled programs
were not really integrated in the apt dependancies. The ultimate
solution is to use apt-build to recompile a software already packaged
for Debian.
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http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2004/51/
