There is customizepkg in AUR which can greatly simplify and help. I agree that it is not practical to build everything(otherwise it will be a gentoo). However,what i have seen is dependencies are like A->B->C and C gets A added sometimes as dependency, in which case recompiling B alone should help. If it is 1 or 2 packages only, then build :) On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:10 AM, André Ramaciotti da Silva < andre.ramaciotti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 01:54:10AM +0530, Raghavendra Prabhu wrote: > > One thing I don't understand here is - why people crib that package B > should > > not have feature X. If you don't want that, ABS is for that. There are > > plenty of packages which have additional dependencies like that > mplayer(like > > smbclient) or vlc(hal :) or lua). > > > > (snipped) > > The problem is that using ABS is impracticable if you have a big number of > custom PKGBUILDs. > > OTOH, having packages with minimal dependencies isn't so great. During the > (short) time I've used Gentoo, I noticed the consume of RAM is a little > lower, but there isn't a big difference in performance. The problems arise > when you compile packages with way to minimal dependencies, and later > realize it was a mistake, and now you have to recompile lots of packages. >
