Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:10:53 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Beeblebrox <zaphod@berentweb.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports should provide knobs disabling unwanted network services Message-ID: <20130327111053.GH64932@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <1364382189510-5799340.post@n5.nabble.com> References: <1364123355503-5798581.post@n5.nabble.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1303261914340.1834@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20130326183743.GF64932@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <1364382189510-5799340.post@n5.nabble.com>
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--ZYOWEO2dMm2Af3e3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 04:03:09AM -0700, Beeblebrox wrote: > Sorry for the late reply, everyone - I was distracted with some other thi= ngs > for a while. >=20 > PATCHING: > I'll probably have to look through the syntax of "OPTIONS" in the Makefil= es > of other KDE / CMAKE ports to get a handle on how to implement. >=20 > Bapt >> you can have it installed on your system but not actually starting > it. > Yes, once it's installed, you can elect to not start the service - That's > obvious. > The problem is, source-file downloads are quite large and I really do not > want to spend my bandwidth or compile time / cpu power on something I have > no intention to use. As an example, the samba-client port downloads the > entire samba tarball which is around 30MB. Add Avahi-mdsn stuff and you w= ill > probably get about 100MB worth of unwanted downloads. Plus, the download > will not be a one-time problem, it will repeat for every update of those > ports. >=20 > Thanks. >=20 I'm speaking about the default because the default will lead to package creation, and binary packages does not have the large tarballs :). regards, Bapt --ZYOWEO2dMm2Af3e3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlFS070ACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EzwzACgnoPkJ8gEGhzkZNcv/vBRt/EK 4zkAoI5jrpWMuiPSuav2qCcuf/x/9JoJ =/HuL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZYOWEO2dMm2Af3e3--
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