From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 22 17:30:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 493B337B401 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 17:30:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB71443EDE for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 17:30:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from sparx.techno.pagans (12-224-208-117.client.attbi.com [12.224.208.117]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B9381005F; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 17:30:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by sparx.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14728AA8F; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 17:30:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3E066732.2010805@pantherdragon.org> Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 17:30:26 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: fcash@ocis.net Cc: Ollivier Robert , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quote from a NetBSDer References: <20021222191145.GA28129@tara.freenix.org> <200212221559.15838.fcash@ocis.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Freddie Cash wrote: >On Sunday 22 December 2002 11:11, Ollivier Robert wrote: >>Heard from a red-neck^W^Wdie-hard NetBSDer: >> « Using the ports system [on FreeBSD] is like using Debian and >> accepting that the maintainer dictates his choices upon you. » > > >>Nevermind that he should speak about packages but then again I wasn't >>expecting anything fair from him, seeing as fanatical as he is... > > You told that you can tweak the Makefile for a port any way you want to > add/remove configure parameters, right? > > You also told him that one can use "make patch" and the run the > configure portion by hand from within the work/ directory, right? Any of the custom configuration bits you can do by hand can also be done by modifying the port Makefile. The port makefiles are really just scripts that issue the same commands the user would if s/he were doing an automated build of source externally. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message