From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 10 20:01:50 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EEB16E3 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:01:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from the.lists@mgm51.com) Received: from oneyou.mcmli.com (oneyou.mcmli.com [IPv6:2001:470:1d:8da::100]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AB7B75A for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:01:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sentry.24cl.com (sentry.24cl.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f07:3fa::1]) by oneyou.mcmli.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3ZmGV554Ppz1DSr for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:01:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from BigBloat (bigbloat.24cl.home [10.20.1.4]) by sentry.24cl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2B3131A6 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:01:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <201304101601440950.0111AC6A@sentry.24cl.com> In-Reply-To: References: <201304101739.LAA29126@lariat.net> <201304101519390199.00EB2234@sentry.24cl.com> X-Mailer: Courier 3.50.00.09.1098 (http://www.rosecitysoftware.com) (P) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:01:44 -0400 From: "Mike." To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When will binary packages be back? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:01:50 -0000 On 4/10/2013 at 3:39 PM Michael Powell wrote: |Mike. wrote: | |[snip] |> |> |> Additionally, for me, building from ports for me has tended to pull in |> many, many X-windows support files when they are not needed. |> |> Specifically, I run a non-windowing system using command line tools. |> When I tried to compile Samba from ports, I finally killed the 'make' |> stage after three hours of compiling X-windows stuff. |> |> Nowhere had I ever spcified that the system was running X or any other |> windowing system. Yet, there it was, three hours of wasted time. |> | |In addition to what Jeff has said, for servers where I do not want any X |related stuff I place WITHOUT_X11= yes in /etc/make.conf. In addition to |make |config option(s), there may also be some default stuff here and there in |the |Mk files. The make.conf line will short circuit these. | |IIRC there may be some exceptions where you need some (a handful or less) |of |some X related packages. Seem to think of things like gd, imagemagick, |freetype, etc., for PHP kind of things. In these cases, the make.conf line |will blanket cover most of what you don't want and you can choose make |config options that will pull in only what you absolutely need without |starting down the line to everything X-related. ============= Thanks Jeff and Mike for the assist. I'll try both those suggestions. Oddly, I was not presented with the usual port config screen when I ran the make phase in the ports. This is on a new install on a newly formatted disk. I thought it odd that the was no config screen, but I chalked it up to something new in the 9.x versions (it was the first time I installed 9.x). It also was the first time I ever used portsnap to obtain and install the ports tree.