Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:26:18 +0100 From: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> To: stevefranks@ieee.org Cc: Ashley Moran <work@ashleymoran.me.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports with GUI configs Message-ID: <4739438A.4010502@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90711121829r3d1ff92fy151c096a1f22f225@mail.gmail.com> References: <2852884D-270A-4879-B960-C10A602E080E@ashleymoran.me.uk> <539c60b90711121829r3d1ff92fy151c096a1f22f225@mail.gmail.com>
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Steve Franks wrote: > Not to mention, as a novice, I've discovered that for 20-60% of all > ports, messing with the defaults makes the port fail to build.... > > Steve This sounds rather unlikely if you use the provided WITH_* flags. In case you do something else with ports - well it's not meant to be done and thus your problem if it doesn't work. Messing with ports in an unintended way just screws up the plists, which results in an inconsistent package database. PS: Please don't top-post.
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