Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 22:13:31 -0800 From: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> To: "."@babolo.ru Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting make options permanently (WITHOUT_GNOME, etc) Message-ID: <20030404061331.8052A1A9@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Message from "."@babolo.ru <1049406224.147843.875.nullmailer@cicuta.babolo.ru>
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> > 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
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