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.) --- 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.