Source Based Distributions, Part 2

Posted Apr 10, 2003 12:17 UTC (Thu) by ewan (guest, #5533)
In reply to: Source Based Distributions, Part 2 by dpash
Parent article: Source Based Distributions, Part 2

The difference between using Debian that way and using a proper source
distribution like Gentoo is that the latter allows you to change compile
time options and have the dependencies recalculated accordingly. So you
can build without CUPS support (for example) and then not need to
install CUPS at all. Building Debian from source will still get you Debian,
built according to Debian decisions, not something built according to
_your_ decisions.