From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 10 02:44:58 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 76DD3E6 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 02:44:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ve0-x22f.google.com (mail-ve0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c01::22f]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 350CC2CC4 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 02:44:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ve0-f175.google.com with SMTP id us18so5269537veb.20 for ; Mon, 09 Jun 2014 19:44:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=MmzWr2LXm8YYnsSsy2qCrrukqcXsHX7Uiuzm2gemSFo=; b=YLs4KYUTCuMOLEwH57ggGhcyc/8hAozz8yaruX5/I2suqNBjW5dSAa3xYoSuAJfT2d 4SDnOfYQXOL3+u07AEGf07mtJwJTz+6yAtOX/AZ3ugn9ZddfFGPWTMqg/80wOGmlIWr2 9YV7Ik5lmsEfXs04y8QmWlNjyyMN2S5y/qPUsJfE7bnuZKBq88cocPreRkLxpVTnUXC3 fwMSVxHTrTvMW0kjj40jF9WMoGysDqohPUubBtubziPtAEYWpDDjIeWga6Pa3QQQBr9N pCCK8bsVHzRrbEkF9JepHox6/TcT/30wH2/HyiF9OH0yEKukJGUUNkpGM8cNPak18CNh IhJg== X-Received: by 10.221.51.77 with SMTP id vh13mr27722355vcb.41.1402368297230; Mon, 09 Jun 2014 19:44:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: mikepwagner@gmail.com Received: by 10.220.214.136 with HTTP; Mon, 9 Jun 2014 19:44:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5395D891.9080406@madpilot.net> References: <5395D891.9080406@madpilot.net> From: Michael Wagner Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 22:44:37 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: vUFiE1uotY_nMwHqWktdFffa18U Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: finance/gnucash To: Guido Falsi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 Cc: gnome X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 02:44:58 -0000 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 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 > -- --------------------------------------------- "... if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into you." - Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil --------------------------------------------