Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:04:23 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: martinko <martinkov@pobox.sk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept) Message-ID: <43E93587.2090200@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <20060207221026.GC2946@holestein.holy.cow> References: <200602071149.31772.mailings.freebsd@o0l0o.org> <43E88C64.40007@xs4all.nl> <43E8A7B3.3090707@meijome.net> <dsav13$99q$1@sea.gmane.org> <20060207221026.GC2946@holestein.holy.cow>
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Parv wrote: > in message <dsav13$99q$1@sea.gmane.org>, wrote martinko thusly... >> Norberto Meijome wrote: >>> Hans Nieser wrote: >>> >>>> FreeBSD Prospect wrote: > ... >>>> What I am especially fond of in portage is the USE-flags and the >>>> way you can specify then globally and individually for each >>>> package and how you can get a nice, short overview of which >>>> USE-flags a package uses and which of them are enabled with >>>> "emerge -pv port". > ... >> there are global USE-flags in FreeBSD too and you also can >> configure ports individually, but i'd agree that Gentoo way is >> more transparent. > > Those USE_* flags are for port creators/maintainers not > users/installers; user use of, well, USE_* flags may get you in a > trouble. OTOH, WITH_* & WITHOUT_* flags lie in user domain. > > - Parv > interesting. Is there anywhere one can read about these things, ie, about where and how USE_* are used/ defined, WITH_, etc. ... and how to compile a list of available (USE|WITH)_* and their meaning (grep -r USE|WITH /usr/ports/*/*/Makefile ?? )... so far i've been using the @freebsd.org lists to do this, but it's rather unreliable and unsystematic B
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