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@xxxxxxxxxxx)
