Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 22:44:37 -0400 From: Michael Wagner <mikepwagner@mikepwagner.net> To: Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> Cc: gnome <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: finance/gnucash Message-ID: <CAPT=E1LnfkzF%2BYqYuRPqCB7z8BLp=sGzn0iSryt=WK0rQ4tGig@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5395D891.9080406@madpilot.net> References: <CAPT=E1L58ueQt6_PTcMkk_o8OQm%2B%2BwN3LDSfj9bZ%2B1xrbHgBBQ@mail.gmail.com> <5395D891.9080406@madpilot.net>
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I think I will play around with building it myself just for the heck of it. I assume that "make install clean" in the ports/gnucash dircectory will do what i want? Thanks, Mike On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> wrote: > On 06/09/14 04:03, Michael Wagner wrote: > > I am very new to freeBSD, and I have a couple of questions. > > > > I noticed that the two things that intrigued me about gnucahs are > > apparently turned off in the freeBSD port of gnucash - though it's > posiible > > that they are jsut turned off in PC-BSD version of the freeBSD port: > > > > 1) database support (ie, storing gnucash info in PostGres, etc). > > 2) OFX file support. > > > > Is this a matter of proprietary code and/or open source issues, or lack > of > > interest? > > These two features are available as port options in the FreeBSD ports > collection, but are turned off by default. > > This means that the official binary packages don't have those compiled > in. If PC-BSD makes it's package with default options ports then these > are not going to be available in PC-BSD either. > > Why they are turned off I think is up for guessing. Since usually we try > to keep dependencies at a minimum and those options add dependencies > that could be the reason. > > No OSS or license issues, nor really lack of interest, it simply looked > like a sensible default. > > You can try championing for changing the defaults. > > -- > Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> > -- --------------------------------------------- "... if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into you." - Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil --------------------------------------------
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