Ubuntu from source

[Matthew Flaschen]

Tim Tebbit wrote:
> Other than being a massive waste of time. It no longer becomes Debian/Ubuntu.
> For example a ton of packages have build scripts to keep things in line with
> the distro's values.

The build scripts are part of the source packages.

> In short, no. Your idea of rebuilding your Ubuntu binaries w/ w/o flags,
> options, etc is not an option.

I believe all the necessary flags are specified in the source packages.

Matt Flaschen