RPM Builds and System Optimization

[John Thompson]

David Cary Hart wrote:

> Most of the Fedora RPMS are provided as i386. These can easily be
> recompiled as:
> 
> rpmbuild --target i686 --rebuild package.src.rpm
> 
> a. Is it worth it? In other words, is there really a performance gain in
> packages like - say - KDE?

The common wisdom is that it won't make a huge difference, but when you 
build new packages from source you may as well use them.

Personally, I wouldn't bother recompiling everything; just new stuff 
that I'm building from source anyway.

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-John (john at os2.dhs.org)