From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 3 22:14:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B938E37B404 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:14:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from CRWdog.demon.co.uk (12-228-200-39.client.attbi.com [12.228.200.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B54E43FB1 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:14:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spadger@best.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by CRWdog.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8052A1A9; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:13:31 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "."@babolo.ru In-Reply-To: Message from "."@babolo.ru <1049406224.147843.875.nullmailer@cicuta.babolo.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 22:13:31 -0800 From: Andy Sparrow Message-Id: <20030404061331.8052A1A9@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting make options permanently (WITHOUT_GNOME, etc) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 06:14:10 -0000 > > Probably because my sole usage of a R/O ports tree (and I'd always > > assumed, most peoples') is aimed at getting around two specific > > problems: > > > > i) Lack of local disk space > > ii) Lack of local grunt > I do not understand ii) reason - lack of English knowledge > and can't intuit, which sence of many possible in dictionary > to use. My bad, & I apologise for not being clear - thoughtless of me. BTW, your English is considerably better than any other language I can manage to order a beer in... :-) What I used was a colloquilism. I meant to describe what, in a motor vehicle, might be termed a shortage of "oomph" or "grunt", e.g. a slow & under-powered, or "gutless" vehicle. In a computer, this would equate to a lack of resources such as CPU power, limited memory, slow disks etc. etc. My print/fax server takes a very long time to build Hylafax, Ghostscript and other packages, for example - so I usually don't do that there... > But it seems to me, that my case not i) or ii) > > My reason is manageability. Ah, OK. I'm on my own again :) Regards, AS