Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:27:15 +0300 From: Jeff Tipton <jeff.t@mail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When will binary packages be back? Message-ID: <5165BD13.7090308@mail.com> In-Reply-To: <201304101519390199.00EB2234@sentry.24cl.com> References: <201304101739.LAA29126@lariat.net> <201304101519390199.00EB2234@sentry.24cl.com>
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On 04/10/2013 22:19, Mike. wrote: > On 4/10/2013 at 11:39 AM Brett Glass wrote: > > |For many years, I've used FreeBSD binary packages to avoid long > |waits and/or having to set up a special build machine when creating > |small systems. But even though the development server security > |breach is now long past, there are no published binary packages for > |FreeBSD 9.1. When will they be back? > ============= > > > Additionally, for me, building from ports for me has tended to pull in > many, many X-windows support files when they are not needed. > > Specifically, I run a non-windowing system using command line tools. > When I tried to compile Samba from ports, I finally killed the 'make' > stage after three hours of compiling X-windows stuff. > > Nowhere had I ever spcified that the system was running X or any other > windowing system. Yet, there it was, three hours of wasted time. > > I never had such issues when installing from packages. > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" @Mike Then you must have selected some non-default options that have pulled in those as dependencies. You can remove them by: make rmconfig or, including all dependent ports: make rmconfig-recursive -Jeff
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