Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 15:22:20 -0600 From: "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why i need extract not one needed port, but full catalog never needed ports? Message-ID: <C0664B68-6788-4865-8B1A-FE2E2D813086@kreme.com> In-Reply-To: <20190905182710.9675eb8f.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <1567694626.722400563@f512.i.mail.ru> <20190905182710.9675eb8f.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 5 Sep 2019, at 10:27, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > The ports tree doesn't consume much disk space. The only time I can see the size of ports being an issue is if you are = running on a mini machine like a pi, but even then, it=E2=80=99s what, = about 1GB? Put in a 32GZB microSD instead of that 8. > If you want to avoid ports, you can always use pkg: "pkg install" > will not require the ports tree to be installed; it will resolve > the dependencies required by a specific port, and download and > install them. No further disk space is needed for building, as > no building happens. Only a small database is maintained by pkg > itself. This works very well up until you need to customize a package, and then = you need to figure out yourself if that change requires dependancies to = also be rebuilt. AFAIK, there=E2=80=99s no real good way to integrate a = pkg install and a ports install. But if you are fine with existing packages and their build options (and = I=E2=80=99d guess most people are?) pkg is definitely the way to go. --=20 Stone circles were common enough everywhere in the mountains. Druids built them as weather computers, and since it was always cheaper to build a new 33-Megalith circle than to upgrade an old slow one, there were generally plenty of ancient ones around --Lords and Ladies
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