On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com>wrote:
> Madhurya Kakati put forth on 5/26/2010 10:15 PM: > > Is there a bsd ports like system in debian? > > I believe you're looking for the Gentoo Portage system: > > http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml > > AFAIK, there is no Debian equivalent, nor any other Linux distro, that > manages > and builds packages from source, in the manner of BSD ports or Gentoo > Portage. > > -- > Stan > > > You can however do almost the equivalent of an "emerge world" in Gentoo. You can use apt-build to recompile all packages on a system using different optimization flags: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/apt-build . -- Jordan Metzmeier
