Re: [TCLUG:15891] GTK+ and RPM

[Daniel Taylor <dante@plethora.net>]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Christopher Reid Palmer wrote:

> kyle matteson wrote:
> 
> > am i alone in saying i'm a fan of compiling things myself??
> 
> Well, what do you stand to gain if you don't intend to modify the source
> yourself? Barring that, or some really weird local configuration, what's
> the point? Just curious.
> 
Having your binaries optimized for _your_ system instead of
Joe Average 486 for one thing.

Having the sources on hand can be a great inspiration to getting
in there and poking about, maybe learning something in the process.
(like--Don't poke it there!)

Many binaries come staticly linked agains libraries that you might
already have installed on your system, so compiling your own can save
space.

Anybody got other "good things" about source installs?

Daniel Taylor