Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 07:00:11 -0500 From: Stan Gammons <s_gammons@charter.net> To: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Port Build options Message-ID: <6C2195D6-10E6-4032-B348-CE27C2203B79@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <CAOFF%2BZ2PrgK-a2CqyQMxK7C37np%2BSuBZ_GrRuVthnpELyDRXaA@mail.gmail.com> References: <1375237644.27294.4.camel@localhost> <CAOFF%2BZ13DfXR8=rqBmAO9SNbw2zjXGeBrid-moCKTHrMDbyEJQ@mail.gmail.com> <1375264380.27294.9.camel@localhost> <CAOFF%2BZ2PrgK-a2CqyQMxK7C37np%2BSuBZ_GrRuVthnpELyDRXaA@mail.gmail.com>
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Sam and list, sorry for the top post. That goes with using a mobile device f= or email. I like FreeBSD a lot and would like to get KDE4 working with it, but I may t= ry PC-BSD. I went back to 8.4 and used sysinstall to install KDE4 and it mo= stly works the way I expect. The one thing that doesn't work the way I expec= ted it when you change consoles and then try to go back to the root console u= sing ctrl alt f1. One finds the console has moved either to f8 or f9. I gues= s the other problems I have are best asked on the kde list. Stan On Jul 31, 2013, at 6:27 AM, "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 >=20 > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Stan Gammons <s_gammons@charter.net> wrot= e: >> On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 04:53 -0400, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: >>=20 >> > 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 po= rts >> > 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 h= as >> > options, whatever is "checked" when the screen comes up, is what the >> > package would have... >>=20 >> 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 s= cience like it should be, in practice it turns out to be more of a witchcraf= t / balancing act > my advice is, download PC-BSD: > http://iso.cdn.pcbsd.org/9.1-RELEASE/amd64/PCBSD9.1-RELEASE-x64-USBFULL-la= test.img.bz2 > install it.. use it... see if it works how you want... these guys put a TO= N 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 ca= n "play around" and see what port options to use where... >=20 > =20 >> Stan >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 >=20 > Sam Fourman Jr.
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