From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 31 11:27:37 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@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 ESMTP id D5E9C817 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:27:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sfourman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vb0-x22d.google.com (mail-vb0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c02::22d]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 953472C30 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:27:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vb0-f45.google.com with SMTP id e15so543033vbg.4 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 04:27:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=YVDh1aX+Q3DAFLvb4N8h7e7BXJfc5o5ceY+gSGylVr0=; b=zuQVDWd4QqHqnCv3hhEpx4F6MfjajmRosZZn4r2tEpfKns8fAh9l5/XviD9xKRObmT FUahU3pNS0aPIUF5etx+tFWPI/ECgZDEunw2cPyG+86jW4e/vZgFlVbd9+qdzk+cJiQd NXONCzBAhCCdcnV/yUxYULF/itAVioxhYJkKqmEzXLLw9WWKUog/HVWoX5KQ3xyKxXgm OV0RpglRD6wLajGHvH2FKUqGtrfvHkHV/s8UeZPLNz9UhilCsFI1TcKxBwar9g37gVHU +PKvIVnIzaxcnYZBMzp1mck/BIvFkuHtaRue1VhaKi2hip1TW4Sqh9sruzL4BO6SsN4H CvLA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.248.166 with SMTP id yn6mr23817964vdc.41.1375270056688; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 04:27:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.96.78 with HTTP; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 04:27:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1375264380.27294.9.camel@localhost> References: <1375237644.27294.4.camel@localhost> <1375264380.27294.9.camel@localhost> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 07:27:36 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Port Build options From: "Sam Fourman Jr." To: Stan Gammons Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: FreeBSD Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:27:37 -0000 On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Stan Gammons wrote: > On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 04:53 -0400, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > > > Stan, > > > > This is a interesting question and one that I struggled with back when I > > first came to open source YEARS ago... > > what time and experience will taught me is that, more is almost ALWAYS, > NOT > > better... so really there is no upside at all to building all of the > ports > > with all of the options... even if it COULD be done... > > > > on FreeBSD, I can tell you that the packages are build with the default > > options... that is to say... when you type "make install" if the port has > > options, whatever is "checked" when the screen comes up, is what the > > package would have... > > Thanks everyone for the replies on this. The reason I ask is I continue > to struggle to get KDE4 to work the way I want. Or perhaps I should say > the way it works on Linux. I've used FreeBSD for several years, but this > is the first time I'd tried to make a graphical interface work with it. > Perhaps that's a question/problem for another list and best not posted > here. > > Stan, Straightup, KDE4 is real hard, getting all the options correct, isn't a science like it should be, in practice it turns out to be more of a witchcraft / balancing act my advice is, download PC-BSD: http://iso.cdn.pcbsd.org/9.1-RELEASE/amd64/PCBSD9.1-RELEASE-x64-USBFULL-latest.img.bz2 install it.. use it... see if it works how you want... these guys put a TON of work into it... they have a wifi manager, gpart GUI, app cafe, and its a rolling release... if you find that it works the way you like, then hit me up off list, we can "play around" and see what port options to use where... > Stan > > > > -- Sam Fourman Jr.