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Optimized packages also means for example not adding mysql support in a package if you don't care for that, or the opposite, adding special features that is normally not supported in a generic ...

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Well I don't know much about the conary approach or anything like that... But it's a pretty straight forward thing to simply recompile debian packaged software for whatever optimizations you want.