When using the apt-get install
method to install a package onto ubuntu, is there any fundamental difference between obtaining the source code for that package and building it from scratch? Does the apt-get install
functionality simply download source and build it on your machine to a specified directory or is there more going on behind the scenes ?
Finally (maybe this has no answer) is one method better than the other? What I am angling at here is does the build it yourself from source code have any advantages or is it better to let apt-get
do its thing?