Debian is great for heavy CVS building (Score 1)

I find the biggest problem is that when I try
to build something from source it usually
requires tones and tones of dependancy's

Debian is great in this regard because I can
almost always find the needed dependancys in
apt and then go ahead and compile the CVS code.

I just did this with gimp2.0 the other day,
it required tones of devel package dependancys
all of which I was able to quickly and easily
install with apt, then it was a simple matter
of opening the gimp source and doing:

./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local;make;make install;

Voila! Gimp2 on Debian Sarge :)