From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Fri Oct 14 07:39:32 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B63EC11EDF for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2016 07:39:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 372601B78 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2016 07:39:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 33B09C11EDE; Fri, 14 Oct 2016 07:39:32 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31A5EC11EDD for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2016 07:39:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "vps1.elischer.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0843E1B76 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2016 07:39:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from julian-mbp3.pixel8networks.com (50-196-156-133-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [50.196.156.133]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id u9E7dTTj095016 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 14 Oct 2016 00:39:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Subject: Re: harder and harder to avoid pkg To: RW , ports@freebsd.org References: <638fe078-80db-2492-90be-f1280eb8d445@freebsd.org> <20161013183338.42f6777d@gumby.homeunix.com> From: Julian Elischer Message-ID: <9699a36d-fd4d-dfaf-eccf-6c744ea7e5fd@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 00:39:24 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161013183338.42f6777d@gumby.homeunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 07:39:32 -0000 On 13/10/2016 10:33 AM, RW via freebsd-ports wrote: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 11:59:47 -0700 > Julian Elischer wrote: > >> As the number of dependencies between packages get ever higher, it >> becomes more and more difficult to compile packages and the >> dependence on binary precompiled packages is increased. However >> binary packages are unsuitable for some situations. We really need >> to follow the lead of some of the Linux groups and have -runtime and >> -devel versions of packages, OR we what woudlbe smarter, woudl be >> to have several "sub manifests" to allow unpacking in different >> environments. >> >> >> A simple example: libxml2 >> >> This package installs include files and libraries and dicumentation >> etc. >> >> yet if I build an appliance , I want it to only install a singe file. >> >> /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.2 > What practical problem does installing the include files and man pages > cause you? I have to delete them from the appliance I'm building up. So I need to get the manifest, remove the files I want from it, and delete every other file mentioned. This is an appliance class machine. It has 2G of storage and that has to include 2 copies for the OS so we can ping-pong for upgrades. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >