From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 8 00:04:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C126716A420 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 00:04:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42D3543D48 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 00:04:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 15154 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2006 11:04:42 +1100 Received: from andromeda.lef.com.au (HELO ?10.168.101.24?) (210.8.93.2) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 8 Feb 2006 11:04:41 +1100 Message-ID: <43E93587.2090200@meijome.net> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:04:23 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: martinko , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200602071149.31772.mailings.freebsd@o0l0o.org> <43E88C64.40007@xs4all.nl> <43E8A7B3.3090707@meijome.net> <20060207221026.GC2946@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20060207221026.GC2946@holestein.holy.cow> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept) 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, 08 Feb 2006 00:04:43 -0000 Parv wrote: > in message , wrote martinko thusly... >> Norberto Meijome wrote: >>> Hans Nieser wrote: >>> >>>> FreeBSD Prospect wrote: > ... >>>> What I am especially fond of in portage is the USE-flags and the >>>> way you can specify then globally and individually for each >>>> package and how you can get a nice, short overview of which >>>> USE-flags a package uses and which of them are enabled with >>>> "emerge -pv port". > ... >> there are global USE-flags in FreeBSD too and you also can >> configure ports individually, but i'd agree that Gentoo way is >> more transparent. > > Those USE_* flags are for port creators/maintainers not > users/installers; user use of, well, USE_* flags may get you in a > trouble. OTOH, WITH_* & WITHOUT_* flags lie in user domain. > > - Parv > interesting. Is there anywhere one can read about these things, ie, about where and how USE_* are used/ defined, WITH_, etc. ... and how to compile a list of available (USE|WITH)_* and their meaning (grep -r USE|WITH /usr/ports/*/*/Makefile ?? )... so far i've been using the @freebsd.org lists to do this, but it's rather unreliable and unsystematic B