Installing Fedora through source rpms?

[James Wilkinson]

Some time back, minn-tarot1024 at mailblocks.com wrote:
> Is it possible to build/install fedora 2 from source rpms so that we
> can optimize the binary, just like Gentoo?

Not easily.

You'd be looking at taking each source RPM, modifying the configuration
inside that SRPM, and running rpmbuild on it.

It's possible, but it's not particularly automated.

James.

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