[Gllug] Recommended distro

[Nelson Menezes]

 --- Jan Kokoska <kokoskaj at seznam.cz> wrote: 
...

> > That's a very good point, but I sometimes like to
> > enable/disable specific/usueless features to my heart's
> > content before compiling. Ideally I'd like to have the
> > choice of binary (when I just want it "to work") or
> source,
> > but with the same mechanism to update and uninstall.
> 
> Good, fetch the source for Debian packages as described
> before, add your
> custom ./configure flags (that's what Gentoo does) and
> re-compile. If
> you need to compile, you need control, lots of it, much
> more than some
> automatic 'emerge' gives you anyway (you might like to
> *edit* the
> source, for instance, then you are on your own..)

So, with Debian, I can do this and still make use of a
packaging install/maintenace interface? Basically, if I
compile, say, Apache, can the *Debian* tools know that
Apache is installed and offer to configure its run-time
options (if it has tools for this; I'm just mentioning
Apache as an example)?


	
	
		
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