On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 16:19 -0500, Michael Tiernan wrote:

> For some of the more tendril bound applications (i.e. based on KDE, 
> Gnome, etc.) this task becomes much more difficult quickly. Not the 
> least of which is, I don't think there's a way to find out that 
> application "X" was built using a specific string of options passed to 
> it (or what those options might be) in order to build a duplicate of the 
> existing application. (If I'm wrong, *PLEASE* tell me.)
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Yea your quite wrong there:

~]$ rpm -q --queryformat="%{NAME}: %{OPTFLAGS}\n" gnome-desktop

gnome-desktop: -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions
-fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic

That's for x86_64 Gnome Desktop...Your GD may be a lil different..:-)  There are 
other way that exist to do so also. 'GLOBAL'

About your pictorial drawing I think a few know what you mean.