From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 3 8:13:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A3A137B401 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 08:13:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f93FDFn83772; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 10:13:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 10:13:14 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: John Hoover Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports dependency question Message-ID: <20011003101314.D50826@dan.emsphone.com> References: <002b01c14c1c$5dce9720$c801a8c0@internal.unknown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002b01c14c1c$5dce9720$c801a8c0@internal.unknown> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 03), John Hoover said: > Quick question... When building ports which have dependencies, is it > normal for those dependencies to be both built and installed? Or is > it normal for a dependency to only be installed if it's required for > compilation? If the other programs were required to compile or link the postfix binary, then yes they would be installed. If you're paranoid about installing programs, you can do your initial "make" as a non-root user. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message