Apt-build (Was Re: Alternatives to ubuntu?)

[John Ruschmeyer]

ulrich steffens wrote:

>Am Mittwoch, den 04.01.2006, 01:45 +0000 schrieb Old Rocker:
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>>On Tuesday 03 Jan 2006 17:12, Filip Svendsen wrote:
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>>>I really don't want to go back to windows again, so I'm interested in
>>>if anybody knows how well gnome and firefox runs under for example
>>>gentoo?
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>>They run really well, but as always the trade-off to ensure your whole 
>>system runs smoothly is getting down into the depths of Gentoo....
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>i dont want to flame but, the whole gento-performance-thingy is IMHO
>just hype. if you're main interest ISN'T doing compiling/tuning all day
>long and not doing work, then gentoo is as 'slow' as every other distro,
>if not slower.
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Speaking of which...

Is there a trick to getting apt-build to run under Ubuntu?

I've installed the apt-build package and had the repository added to my 
sources.list, but every attempt I've ever made at installing a package 
from source has failed with obscure dpkg-buildpackage problems.

Is there an undocumented dependency I'm not aware of?

Thanks...
<<<john>>>