• toneverends@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    If you really like routinely building core packages in your system from source, use Gentoo. It’s a distro made for building everything from source, so is one of the best set up for the risks that entails.

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      3 years ago

      As gentoo user I can’t argue with that… ;)

      But I think there are reasons why someone would want to build suckless tools manually…namely that their configuration is mostly done in the source-code (Damn, it’s so hard to not write anything too opinionated about suckless but I really try my best). But even then I agree with your other post that it’s far better to use the distro facilities for building the the distro source packages just with your own patches applied.