Re: [TCLUG:15891] GTK+ and RPM

[Christopher Reid Palmer <chrisp@dusk.bitstream.net>]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Daniel Taylor wrote:

> 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.

Thanks, Daniel. That pretty much sums up what I've come up with so far as
reasoning for a source-based Linux distribution--especially #2 above. I'll
echo Daniel: anyone else?


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