From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 31 12:26:53 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EABE3D6 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:26:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from s_gammons@charter.net) Received: from que41.charter.net (que41.charter.net [209.225.8.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3508A2F56 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:26:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from imp10 ([10.20.200.15]) by mta41.charter.net (InterMail vM.8.01.05.02 201-2260-151-103-20110920) with ESMTP id <20130731120011.VOV10143.mta41.charter.net@imp10>; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:00:11 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.69] ([199.91.32.100]) by imp10 with smtp.charter.net id 700A1m00a29d2qn0500BJB; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:00:11 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=foeE/yEf c=1 sm=1 a=elTb8dVMpflFWi3E/tBxAw==:17 a=yUnIBFQkZM0A:10 a=hOpmn2quAAAA:8 a=Td_l_GlAp4gA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=x2m3GPe0AAAA:8 a=BAnMVXBytQDbnqjasRkA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=hUswqBWy9Q8A:10 a=91ZOSVIjOvUt5tjHe8AA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=_W_S_7VecoQA:10 a=tXsnliwV7b4A:10 a=SEk0s_voScvLk-oI:21 a=elTb8dVMpflFWi3E/tBxAw==:117 X-Auth-id: c19nYW1tb25zQGNoYXJ0ZXIubmV0 References: <1375237644.27294.4.camel@localhost> <1375264380.27294.9.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <6C2195D6-10E6-4032-B348-CE27C2203B79@charter.net> X-Mailer: iPad Mail (10B329) From: Stan Gammons Subject: Re: Port Build options Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 07:00:11 -0500 To: "Sam Fourman Jr." Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: FreeBSD Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:26:53 -0000 Sam and list, sorry for the top post. That goes with using a mobile device f= or email. I like FreeBSD a lot and would like to get KDE4 working with it, but I may t= ry PC-BSD. I went back to 8.4 and used sysinstall to install KDE4 and it mo= stly works the way I expect. The one thing that doesn't work the way I expec= ted it when you change consoles and then try to go back to the root console u= sing ctrl alt f1. One finds the console has moved either to f8 or f9. I gues= s the other problems I have are best asked on the kde list. Stan On Jul 31, 2013, at 6:27 AM, "Sam Fourman Jr." wrote: >=20 >=20 > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Stan Gammons wrot= e: >> On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 04:53 -0400, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: >>=20 >> > Stan, >> > >> > This is a interesting question and one that I struggled with back when I= >> > first came to open source YEARS ago... >> > what time and experience will taught me is that, more is almost ALWAYS,= NOT >> > better... so really there is no upside at all to building all of the po= rts >> > with all of the options... even if it COULD be done... >> > >> > on FreeBSD, I can tell you that the packages are build with the default= >> > options... that is to say... when you type "make install" if the port h= as >> > options, whatever is "checked" when the screen comes up, is what the >> > package would have... >>=20 >> Thanks everyone for the replies on this. The reason I ask is I continue >> to struggle to get KDE4 to work the way I want. Or perhaps I should say >> the way it works on Linux. I've used FreeBSD for several years, but this >> is the first time I'd tried to make a graphical interface work with it. >> Perhaps that's a question/problem for another list and best not posted >> here. > Stan, > Straightup, KDE4 is real hard, getting all the options correct, isn't a s= cience like it should be, in practice it turns out to be more of a witchcraf= t / balancing act > my advice is, download PC-BSD: > http://iso.cdn.pcbsd.org/9.1-RELEASE/amd64/PCBSD9.1-RELEASE-x64-USBFULL-la= test.img.bz2 > install it.. use it... see if it works how you want... these guys put a TO= N of work into it... they have a wifi manager, gpart GUI, app cafe, and its a= rolling release... > if you find that it works the way you like, then hit me up off list, we ca= n "play around" and see what port options to use where... >=20 > =20 >> Stan >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 >=20 > Sam Fourman Jr.