Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 13:42:15 -0700 From: paul beard <paulbeard@gmail.com> To: pkg@freebsd.org Subject: pkg config options: is this a thing? Message-ID: <CAMtcK2qZWgprydk_vvA-MXw_Q2nVDemPdzhUUikstvMT9r=jAw@mail.gmail.com>
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I have been using pkg pretty exclusively since I have a hardware failure and need to rebuild an existing FreeBSD system. It's now running in VirtualBox on an iMac(!) and works just fine. But I have been running into some issues with pkgs that have config options or variables at build time that I can't or don't know how to manage. My most recent example was installing cups and it's various components and finding that the ssl libs to manage the web UI were not installed or linked properly. I ended up building it all from source to make it work properly. I was having bad flashbacks of my days with another more well-known open source OS with it's myriad incompatible distros and packages, which was one of the reasons I tried and have stuck with FreeBSD since release 4.11. If there is something I am missing please advise. If it were up to me, I would like to see a config screen pop up, just as I see with 'make config' and the choices made there inform the pkg I request and install. Ideally, you don't want more libraries or binaries than you truly need for security reasons, to say nothing of sanity. And of course, you also want stuff to work properly. -- Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/
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