Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 16:32:02 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Questions from a Linux refugee Message-ID: <20150106163202.f07341af.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20150106124739.a336caccfdef65863f461f7c@milibyte.co.uk> References: <20150106115503.4870ab2e@jive> <CAOc73CA9nEWSFckf2r1S9eQKWN%2Bza-NKcU_25z1EHyJDdAqPvw@mail.gmail.com> <20150106132934.7b2ba08c.freebsd@edvax.de> <20150106124739.a336caccfdef65863f461f7c@milibyte.co.uk>
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2015 12:47:39 +0000, Mike Clarke wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2015 13:29:34 +0100 > Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > > > You can use portmaster with the -P or -PP switches (to force > > the use of binary packages when they are available) to avoid > > building all the dependencies from source. > > Unfortunately this has not been possible since the switch to pkg-ng. Thanks for raising awareness! Until it becomes available, it's probably not that wrong to perform a command construct like "make missing | pkg install" to get the dependencies via pkg where possible, and then use compiling from source where neccessary. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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