From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 3 06:37:22 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 DE21E106566B for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 06:37:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B27018FC0A for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 06:37:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 07D50E80457; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 23:37:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 23:37:21 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Chris Telting Message-ID: <20110403063721.GB20405@thought.org> References: <4D96668C.3090406@telting.org> <4d97ba5a.199K2FcyLXA6+b5f%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <9BFF22F1-7559-4107-B149-94A79CA3ADB7@d3photography.com> <20110403014303.GC18031@thought.org> <4D97E46D.1000202@telting.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D97E46D.1000202@telting.org> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24++ years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 06:37:22 -0000 On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 08:07:25PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: > > > 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 > not sure about setting the options for a particular port, but i think you can build it with various flags set when you pull down the src. at any rate, since most drives are HUGE these days, enabling all/most options doesn't eat up that great a percent of the disk. and yeah, that's just my guess. note that i've been using freebsd since '95 and linux since '05. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org