Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 17:36:29 +0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg and packages Message-ID: <4f000382-c8ca-ebb6-0746-299e36e8281b@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1uM_zU2sfwyiMuQSOP%2BVT96XuFKzNSn_tv7dDfU7QoLaw@mail.gmail.com> References: <chgjgc91bp3vu3aufg8p9cavrp7iehvhei@4ax.com> <d903c4aa02b629b5d22cedc62ac33031@ultimatedns.net> <2c69cd39-2cd2-3b6d-a2e0-f28a9fda7e05@infracaninophile.co.uk> <qm2mgc9hdu4cl5ddasnk8albkg0ncj9osn@4ax.com> <87mvarar9n.fsf@domain.invalid> <CAN6yY1uM_zU2sfwyiMuQSOP%2BVT96XuFKzNSn_tv7dDfU7QoLaw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/5/17 5:14 am, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Sebastian Schwarz <seschwar@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 2017-05-04, scratch65535@att.net wrote: >>> I can't imagine what code could possibly be in thunar and >>> samba that the xfce desktop would need, (...) >> Thunar is used to display the icons on the XFCE desktop. It >> depends on gvfs, which is used for accessing remote file systems >> and the trash inside Thunar. gvfs in turn depends on samba44 in >> order to access CIFS/SMB shares. >> >> Strictly speaking some of these features might be optional. But >> as far I know pkg currently doesn't have a concept of optional >> dependencies. So it's an all or nothing decision, when building >> the packages. >> > This is the case. If you want to stick with packages, at least until some > new packaging features are available, your best bet is to install > ports-mgmt/synth. Then you can use it to add a private repository of all > ports that you want built with non-standard options. Then have synth create > a custom Thunar package that you can then use to avoid samba (44 or 46) or, > if supported, build Thunar against the samba version of your choosing. > > synth(8) has excellent documentation on how to configure and use it. I > recommend it for the type of issue you are running into. (N.B. synth is > written in ADA and, for that reason, I don't recommend building synth from > source as that requires a major installation of the ADA compiler. > -- > Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer > E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com > PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > you can do the same with poudriere, by telling it to keep a set of pre-canned configureations. see: PORT_DBDIR Directory where the results of configuring OPTIONS are stored. Defaults to /var/db/ports. Each port where OPTIONS have been configured will have a uniquely named sub-directory, containing a single file options.
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