Now Debian users can waste hours on end!

[Nothinman]

Compiling things easily just like Genoo users =)

When you setup apt-build it asks which compiler you want to use and it even includes non-free ones like icc (Intel's compiler) and ccc (Compaq's Alpha compiler), which processor you have and what -O level you want to use. It's basically a perl wrapper around 'apt-get source'.

$apt-cache show apt-build
Package: apt-build
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 92
Maintainer: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.5-3
Depends: perl, apt (>= 0.5), gcc | gcc-3.0 | gcc-3.1 , dpkg-dev (>= 1.9), libappconfig-perl (>= 1.5), fakeroot, debconf, devscripts
Conflicts: pentium-builder
Filename: pool/main/a/apt-build/apt-build_0.5-3_all.deb
Size: 10072
MD5sum: e07dda21e372d81c67dadc73ab31aed1
Description: Frontend to apt to build, optimize and install packages
This is an apt-get front-end for compiling software optimized
for your architecture.
It can manage system upgrade or dist-upgrade too.

 

[Tiger]

Cool! Tried it yet?
I think Gentoo's portage is written in Python.

 

[Nothinman]

I used it to build 1 package just to see if it really worked, nothing big because my system is already really speedy =)

Oh yea, I should probably say this is in 'sid', I doubt it'll be in sarge for a while.