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Date:      Thu, 5 Sep 2019 15:22:20 -0600
From:      "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why i need extract not one needed port, but full catalog never needed ports?
Message-ID:  <C0664B68-6788-4865-8B1A-FE2E2D813086@kreme.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190905182710.9675eb8f.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <1567694626.722400563@f512.i.mail.ru> <20190905182710.9675eb8f.freebsd@edvax.de>

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On 5 Sep 2019, at 10:27, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
> The ports tree doesn't consume much disk space.

The only time I can see the size of ports being an issue is if you are =
running on a mini machine like a pi, but even then, it=E2=80=99s what, =
about 1GB? Put in a 32GZB microSD instead of that 8.

> If you want to avoid ports, you can always use pkg: "pkg install"
> will not require the ports tree to be installed; it will resolve
> the dependencies required by a specific port, and download and
> install them. No further disk space is needed for building, as
> no building happens. Only a small database is maintained by pkg
> itself.

This works very well up until you need to customize a package, and then =
you need to figure out yourself if that change requires dependancies to =
also be rebuilt. AFAIK, there=E2=80=99s no real good way to integrate a =
pkg install and a ports install.

But if you are fine with existing packages and their build options (and =
I=E2=80=99d guess most people are?) pkg is definitely the way to go.


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