Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 11:11:16 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port dependencies Message-ID: <4D96E834.9010204@nagual.nl> In-Reply-To: <20110402025150.39722549.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4D96668C.3090406@telting.org> <20110402025150.39722549.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 2-4-2011 2:51, Polytropon wrote: > So there is still stuff one needs to compile, and > YOU are in charge to define the options you need. > This is the "downside" when you're running a multi- > purpose OS like FreeBSD. That is a good thing. But I remember an issue that I never understood. I onced set up a system as a mail and webserver and used packages for this. Fast and easy I thought and good enough. But although lamp/famp/samp is very common I could not install apache WITH php support. Why? Because php has no support for apache compiled in the precompiled package (it might have been the other way around; not quite sure). Anyway, apache+php could not be installed from packages. I had to compile them from ports. I hated that and could not understand why a so common setting is not on by default.
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