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Building from source - disadvantages? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 6 days ago by oeuf@slrpnk.net to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Are there any risks or disadvantages to building software from source, compared to installing a package? Can it mess with my system in any way?

I usually avoid it because I've found it to be a faff and often doesn't work anyway but in a couple of cases it has been necessary.

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[–] iopq@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, but only when you build with lto+pgo which will take even longer

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Mozilla/Firefox_Benchmarks_2025_Q1

spend an hour building to save 1ms per page load

[–] lengau@midwest.social 12 points 6 days ago

Look I don't have heat in the winter so I compile Firefox for various processors to keep my bedroom warm okay?

[–] ragas@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

As far as I can see, this comparison always uses the 'native' target. So you can't even compare a generic LTO build with a native (non LTO) build from this.