It's been almost 20 years since I compiled linux, but it was kind of like that. You would choose the features you needed and ignore the rest. Other compiled app

It's been almost 20 years since I compiled linux, but it was kind of like that. You would choose the features you needed and ignore the rest. Other compiled applications generally have options you can pass to make to enable certain features. Python readline comes to mind. It would be interesting if we had a similar system for GUI applications. The interface would need to be generated to only show features that are included