From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 19 18:55:14 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33C15C92 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:55:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsdml@marino.st) Received: from shepard.synsport.net (mail.synsport.com [208.69.230.148]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10CEE1915 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:55:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.31.9.160] (unknown [213.225.137.129]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shepard.synsport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA63A435A3 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:55:06 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <51C1FE89.4060705@marino.st> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:55:05 +0200 From: John Marino User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports && 10-CURRENT References: <201306191852.r5JIq3Id024315@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: <201306191852.r5JIq3Id024315@slippy.cwsent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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, 19 Jun 2013 18:55:14 -0000 On 6/19/2013 20:52, Cy Schubert wrote: > The point is, why install software permanently when you don't need to? Or, > go through the exercise of uninstalling build software post-install? That's not pertinent for binary packages. The build depends aren't tied to the final products. It's just a build-for-source issue, and then you might as well leave them in place for the next port that needs that build dependency. I don't really see the problem here. John