From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 3 03:07:27 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C7CA106566B for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 03:07:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from christopher-ml@telting.org) Received: from mail.telting.org (mail.telting.org [204.109.56.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 784748FC0C for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 03:07:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from apollo.local (cpe-76-168-204-255.socal.res.rr.com [76.168.204.255]) by mail.telting.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F34392A702; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 03:07:25 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4D97E46D.1000202@telting.org> Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:07:25 -0700 From: Chris Telting User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110305 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline References: <4D96668C.3090406@telting.org> <4d97ba5a.199K2FcyLXA6+b5f%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <9BFF22F1-7559-4107-B149-94A79CA3ADB7@d3photography.com> <20110403014303.GC18031@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20110403014303.GC18031@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port dependencies X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 03:07:27 -0000 > seriously, this is why i want that debian+freebsd that was > discussed recently. the kernel is ours and number one in the > world. and the ports stuff is basically packages that more/less > just-work. you can get the src =with= the pkg. > How does debian get around all the "make config" options that we deal with? Such as does such and such package pull in samba... Or does debian just compile with every option more or less enabled? Chris