Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 08:43:20 +0200 From: hw <hw@adminart.net> To: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What does it mean to use ports? Message-ID: <875znu603b.fsf@toy.adminart.net> In-Reply-To: <20190721183239.GA3996@c720-r342378> (Matthias Apitz's message of "Sun, 21 Jul 2019 20:32:39 %2B0200") References: <87o91wqjl5.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <23851.63340.445828.46420@alice.local> <87sgr7joq7.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <20190716003705.eaa7db5f.freebsd@edvax.de> <8736j6iw12.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <23860.43628.637748.236257@alice.local> <20190721183239.GA3996@c720-r342378>
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Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> writes: > El d=C3=ADa domingo, julio 21, 2019 a las 11:09:48a. m. -0700, George Har= tzell escribi=C3=B3: > >> hw writes: >> > Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> writes: >> > [...] >> > The most time consuming part would be to learn and to decide about all >> > the options of all the packages to compile. Doing that for just one >> > package like emacs might take weeks because there are so many >> > dependencies. [...] >> > >> > At some point in the process, it might not work out at all because I >> > picked options in contradiction to dependencies. Setting up the tools >> > might be the smallest problem. >>=20 >> All of that is true, but awfully pessimistic. Often things just work. >> Other times you have to run down one or two chains of x begets y >> begets z. >>=20 >> I think that learning to build your own things is a good exercise, >> even if you switch back to pre-built packages. > > I compile my own set of the ports I'm used to use with poudriere(8). > Based on a list of some 400 ports the result is some 2000 packages ready > to install. Very seldom, I tweak the options of some port (for example > to add features to mail/mutt, or to add features to x11/xterm) and there = are > never conflicts among of the options. Hm, is there something in place that prevents messing up things through options, or is everything ok because you almost never change them?
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