From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 18:06:59 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 3197C106566B for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:06:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pldrouin@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDAA58FC12 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:06:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz16 with SMTP id 16so2822281bwz.13 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:06:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=/24TSu5GswI3n5jZODIJCXNvgCTKn+oha2mPhidt5us=; b=sbnBnK6iW3EnHfsQg+1lQZpIrYAZeLC0mzPNP9Vg+vpWNVbSyQVROj78UGLu+bHCYo AGpm7bLBzlonEiCdlzqxSxca2/vNqZE6QwpVV28O3ZRmqW0/QrTuH4KUMB4+60iS1Mk8 9an98DI/jwfDEICSsZdYjt685gnSQtPhxNrGM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Oy4wUye47Qm1knwF2MXGtLY5IzB0ZTqr5x31wof0C3TrwzKdkC+MSCIfpj3Y0zSGzH 0s1GPVNhm876vMgbIKUozBuTdDTLwrxVlxJ9LmHqULf2ElE+ABfnFjEJVYfHxGArNZi6 JWRupRtP6HeaJZ67QDlC3qm3Vi/YIZUXRR2dk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.70.67 with SMTP id c3mr8096383bkj.62.1286993215589; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:06:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.59.137 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:06:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4CB5F3BA.6050801@rawbw.com> References: <4CB5E081.8070809@rawbw.com> <20101013175107.GA74687@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> <4CB5F3BA.6050801@rawbw.com> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:06:55 -0400 Message-ID: From: Pierre-Luc Drouin To: Yuri Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Frank Shute , 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 18:06:59 -0000 On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Yuri wrote: > 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. > I think it would be nice if at least one binary package was available with the most "typical" dependencies. For example, I am not a native English speaker, but I would not mind using the English version OO if I could download it as a binary package... Just my $0.02... > Yuri > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >