X from the sources

[Liam Proven]

On 14 February 2012 00:54, Valter Nogueira <valter at fastway.com.br> wrote:
> have you installed X from the sources or from a Ubuntu repository?

Just from the repos. I will go out of my way to avoid compiling from
source if at all possible. I was using Linux actively 15 years ago and
have no wish at all to go back to those days.

If you want to build stuff from scratch, I don't think Ubuntu is the
distro to start on. Partly, it's not its aim; partly there's no real
point; partly it's too easy; and partly because you won't be able to
install Ubuntu packages onto the result as the lower-level
dependencies will be missing.

Gentoo is the obvious one, or perhaps Arch or even Slackware. Or
abandon Linux altogether and try FreeBSD. All these are more
source-oriented, AIUI.


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