Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 20:32:39 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> Cc: hw <hw@adminart.net>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What does it mean to use ports? Message-ID: <20190721183239.GA3996@c720-r342378> In-Reply-To: <23860.43628.637748.236257@alice.local> References: <87o91wqjl5.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <23851.63340.445828.46420@alice.local> <87sgr7joq7.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <20190716003705.eaa7db5f.freebsd@edvax.de> <8736j6iw12.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <23860.43628.637748.236257@alice.local>
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El día domingo, julio 21, 2019 a las 11:09:48a. m. -0700, George Hartzell escribió: > hw writes: > > Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> writes: > > [...] > > The most time consuming part would be to learn and to decide about all > > the options of all the packages to compile. Doing that for just one > > package like emacs might take weeks because there are so many > > dependencies. [...] > > > > At some point in the process, it might not work out at all because I > > picked options in contradiction to dependencies. Setting up the tools > > might be the smallest problem. > > All of that is true, but awfully pessimistic. Often things just work. > Other times you have to run down one or two chains of x begets y > begets z. > > I think that learning to build your own things is a good exercise, > even if you switch back to pre-built packages. I compile my own set of the ports I'm used to use with poudriere(8). Based on a list of some 400 ports the result is some 2000 packages ready to install. Very seldom, I tweak the options of some port (for example to add features to mail/mutt, or to add features to x11/xterm) and there are never conflicts among of the options. matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub May, 9: Спаси́бо освободители! Thank you very much, Russian liberators!
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