From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sun May 7 09:37:18 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17346D60B4A for ; Sun, 7 May 2017 09:37:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "vps1.elischer.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C32A31B39 for ; Sun, 7 May 2017 09:37:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from Julian-MBP3.local (106-68-108-134.dyn.iinet.net.au [106.68.108.134]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id v479akjx004667 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 7 May 2017 02:37:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Subject: Re: pkg and packages To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <2c69cd39-2cd2-3b6d-a2e0-f28a9fda7e05@infracaninophile.co.uk> <87mvarar9n.fsf@domain.invalid> From: Julian Elischer Message-ID: <4f000382-c8ca-ebb6-0746-299e36e8281b@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 17:36:29 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 09:37:18 -0000 On 7/5/17 5:14 am, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Sebastian Schwarz > 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.