Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 15:34:02 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> Cc: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Concurrent package making allowed? Message-ID: <19980628153402.12114@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980628003544.25923A-100000@james.hwcn.org>; from Tim Vanderhoek on Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 12:53:57AM -0400 References: <19980628095002.19830@welearn.com.au> <Pine.GSO.3.96.980628003544.25923A-100000@james.hwcn.org>
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On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 12:53:57AM -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Sue Blake wrote:
>
> > One way, for example, would be to put up a personal web page listing
> > those ports which I know to work without X, but I can't see any good way
>
> Ugh!
Yes, well, this is the best I can come up with :-)
> > Looking in every Makefile might seem a pain, but quite tolerable when
> > simply looking for a port to do a particular job without X. Consider that
>
> You should look in the Makefile of any port before you compile it...
If you know what the stuff in a Makefile is. Beginners won't. I'm juuuust
staaaarting to learn about them, and I've been blindly typing "make
install" for months.
> However, it shouldn't be necessary to look in the Makefile to
> determine if the port requires X.
>
> Currently you should be able to divine it from the CATEGORIES
> (yes, I know, many of the ports don't have the right CATEGORIES,
> but that's a problem due to the fast growth of the collection and
> education is the solution to it).
You mean categories like audio? graphics? We found that didn't help.
If I could use grep to exclude everything uninteresting from INDEX I'd be
happy as larry, but we haven't found a way to do that that comes close.
> Actually, I prefer the patch asami posted (with the caveat that I
> lost the patch and can't look over it right now to make sure I
> still prefer it :).
Hmm.. ok, maybe there's a good solution there but it would have gone over
my head. I'm just a user who wanted to explain why it's hard to avoid
installing the wrong stuff. I think my point has been taken and there's
nothing more I can usefully contribute. It'll be fixed one day if it can
be, and that's great. Thanks for listening.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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