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Date:      Sun, 11 Aug 2024 20:28:34 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Alexander Burke <alex@alexburke.ca>
To:        D'Arcy Cain <darcy@druid.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing Signal
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If I wanted to be forced to build everything from source, I'd run Gentoo.

As a donor to the project, it grieves me to say that the lack of non-outdat=
ed packages for tier-1 desktop applications excludes FreeBSD as a bona fide=
 desktop OS.

It's a shame.
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2024-08-11T11:30:30Z D'Arcy Cain <darcy@druid.net>:

> On 2024-08-11 06:41, Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote:
>> =C2=A0 If you insist on trying to build multiple ports at the same time =
in an automated fashion then you would want to try poudriere (no experience=
 with synth to know if it does it too). In addition to being able to define=
 MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=3D (which defaults to 1 on poudriere) you can set
>=20
> In fact it defaults to the number of CPUs that you have which makes the m=
ost sense.=C2=A0 It defaulted to 2 on my main work build server and 4 on my=
 home server.=C2=A0 If you have mult-threaded CPUs (do they even make singl=
e threaded any more?) I suppose to could bump it but I am not sure how much=
 that would buy you.
>=20
> Note that poudriere will build fewer if it can't meet all the dependencie=
s.=C2=A0 I am building now and it dropped to 1 build since it is needed for=
 everything else.
>=20
> --=20
> D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=
=A0=C2=A0 |=C2=A0 Democracy is three wolves
> http://darcy.druid.net/=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 |=C2=A0 =
and a sheep voting on
> +1 416 788 2246=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 (DoD#0082)=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 (eNT=
P)=C2=A0=C2=A0 |=C2=A0 what's for dinner.
> IM: darcy@VybeNetworks.com, VoIP: sip:darcy@druid.net



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