From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 18:00:30 2010 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 12CD1106564A for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:00:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from shell0.rawbw.com (shell0.rawbw.com [198.144.192.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F22A88FC0A for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.syrec.org (stunnel@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell0.rawbw.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o9DI0S9U030282; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:00:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Message-ID: <4CB5F3BA.6050801@rawbw.com> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:00:26 -0700 From: Yuri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100930 Thunderbird/3.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank Shute References: <4CB5E081.8070809@rawbw.com> <20101013175107.GA74687@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20101013175107.GA74687@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Too many binary packages are missing 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: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:00:30 -0000 On 10/13/2010 10:51, Frank Shute wrote: > gcc is in base as cc(1). There are a metric ton of qt4 ports and they > are not basic in that they are not required if you don't use KDE or > its applications. > Base has 4.2.1 and not updating (waiting for LLVM conversion maybe). So many ports require various gcc versions to be installed. Mostly to build them at buildtime, and libraries at runtime. And turns out that binaries for these extra gcc packages are missing for some reason. And QT is one of the major graphics toolkits. Various random packages use them as well as KDE. Pretty basic thing. > It's a case of having space on the servers IIRC. > > Also some require too many options to be set at build time (probably > the problem with qt). I know it's the reason why OO.o is not packaged > - too many languages& other options. > I am not sure how Debian packages handle this. They seem to support all the same options and are always in binaries. Yuri