Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 08:41:33 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: "Peter D. Pawelek" <ppawel@axess.com> Cc: djv@bedford.net, anxiety@primenet.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE-1.0 [ ports .vs. hand-building ] Message-ID: <ML-3.3.900949293.8122.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <19980720074839.A292@axess.com>
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[ Sorry for the previous empty reply - it was a total spaz. ] > Ah, that would be a concern if I was building the port, but I was actually > compiling KDE source directly from kde.org...I usually don't resort to > ports unless absolutely necessary (ie. being a control freak and all that.. I find it quite useful to do a 'make extract' or 'make configure' in the port; then go into the work dir and tweak the config before building. This gets me any required patches and dependancies, choice of make, etc. while still allowing me to twiddle the various configuration knobs to different settings than the port maintainer chose. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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