From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:01:26 -0000 (UTC), Markus Robert Kessler wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 21:57:23 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >> And what’s with this reluctance to compile from source, anyway?   
   >> It’s part of the bread and butter of running any Linux distro.   
   >   
   > Yes, debian has it and openSuSE has it. And I can confirm that   
   > compiling from scratch is not as easy as it looked like. I tried to   
   > create a package for Mageia, based on the original tarball, but   
   > there are plenty of dependencies not visible during   
   > configure/make/makeinstall.   
      
   On Debian and derivatives, if you want to build your own version of a   
   package, a quick “apt-get build-dep «package»” will get you all of the   
   dependencies for the standard version of that package. Which should be   
   most, if not all, of what you need.   
      
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