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Date:      Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:29:32 +0200
From:      "Sijmen J. Mulder" <ik@sjmulder.nl>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What does it mean to use ports?
Message-ID:  <20190715162932.80cb7efd26d9e89f7fc65724@sjmulder.nl>
In-Reply-To: <877e8jq5zm.fsf@toy.adminart.net>
References:  <87o91wqjl5.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <20190715021053.2f82c84c.freebsd@edvax.de> <23851.53207.561626.837532@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <877e8jq5zm.fsf@toy.adminart.net>

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hw <hw@adminart.net> wrote:
> > 	Verbum sapienti: be careful when you do this.  The settings in
> > make.conf are used for _every_ compilation on the system - ports
> > ... and world ... and the kernel,
> 
> Thanks for the warning --- Gentoo has something like that, too.

Note that, having adjusted USE on Gentoo, 'emerge --newuse @world' will
cause the whole tree's dependency graph to be updated and all affected
packages recompiled. I don't think any of the BSD port systems have
this feature.

Sijmen



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