From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 16 00:16:50 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A4C116A418 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:16:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-47.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-47.bluehost.com [69.89.18.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE00913C4D9 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:16:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 17179 invoked by uid 0); 16 Nov 2007 00:16:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by mailproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 16 Nov 2007 00:16:40 -0000 Received: from c-24-9-123-251.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.123.251] helo=demeter.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Isosx-0003sg-Vz for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:16:40 -0700 Received: from demeter.hydra (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by demeter.hydra (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lAG0HEjM077176 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:17:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (from ren@localhost) by demeter.hydra (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id lAG0HEJe077175 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:17:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) X-Authentication-Warning: demeter.hydra: ren set sender to perrin@apotheon.com using -f Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:17:13 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071116001713.GF76155@demeter.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4738CB99.5000807@web.de> <20071112235921.11ae8c0a@gumby.homeunix.com.> <4738FFC7.7000309@chuckr.org> <47394287.6050303@gmx.de> <473CA416.2040300@chuckr.org> <20071115205131.6f31ba66@gumby.homeunix.com.> <473CB387.2090100@chuckr.org> <20071115214316.656e279c@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20071115220407.GB76155@demeter.hydra> <20071115231556.0b3a37a4@gumby.homeunix.com.> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071115231556.0b3a37a4@gumby.homeunix.com.> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.net} {sentby:bopbeforesmtp 24.9.123.251 authed with apotheon.com} X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - box183.bluehost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [737 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - apotheon.com Subject: Re: Ports with GUI configs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:16:50 -0000 On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:15:56PM +0000, RW wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:04:07 -0700 > Chad Perrin wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 09:43:16PM +0000, RW wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:00:55 -0500 > > > Chuck Robey wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I've already deleted the message that kicked me off, but it > > > > looked to me that you were talking about the 10,000 ports I was > > > > talking about, and that meant you were referring to new installs, > > > > not upgrades. > > > > > > Why would anyone want to configure ports they don't want to > > > install? > > > > I've been following this discussion without participating, but I have > > a question: > > > > How does that question follow from the preceding, quoted statement? > > > > I assumed that he meant all ports, 10,000 is of the same order of > magnitude as the total number of ports (27000), but an absurdly high > figure for a real system. > > Actually the total number of ports in the entire tree that support > options is only 1447. And out of 821 ports installed on my KDE desktop > machine only 140 do. > > The idea that anyone ever has to configure 10,000 ports is nonsense. Ah, thank you. Somehow, I missed that implication (even though I personally have far, far fewer ports installed on this machine than 10k, too). -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Amazon.com interview candidate: "When C++ is your hammer, everything starts to look like your thumb."