From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 2 09:32:15 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 E5430106566C for ; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 09:32:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.165]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7EC88FC15 for ; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 09:32:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.138] (helo=smtp7.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5wrM-0003YR-Hw for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 11:11:08 +0200 Received: from 524a3a21.cm-4-3a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([82.74.58.33] helo=mail.nagual.nl) by smtp7.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5wrL-0006i3-8X for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 11:11:07 +0200 Received: from [192.168.11.34] (192.168.11.34) by westmark (Axigen) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 1F57D4; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 11:13:10 +0200 Message-ID: <4D96E834.9010204@nagual.nl> Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 11:11:16 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; nl; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4D96668C.3090406@telting.org> <20110402025150.39722549.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20110402025150.39722549.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AxigenSpam-Level: 4 X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1Q5wrL-0006i3-8X X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=0.247, vereist 5, BAYES_00 -1.90, CM_META_TB_NOARR 0.50, FH_HOST_EQ_D_D_D_D 0.67, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: dick@nagual.nl X-Spam-Status: No 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: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 09:32:16 -0000 On 2-4-2011 2:51, Polytropon wrote: > So there is still stuff one needs to compile, and > YOU are in charge to define the options you need. > This is the "downside" when you're running a multi- > purpose OS like FreeBSD. That is a good thing. But I remember an issue that I never understood. I onced set up a system as a mail and webserver and used packages for this. Fast and easy I thought and good enough. But although lamp/famp/samp is very common I could not install apache WITH php support. Why? Because php has no support for apache compiled in the precompiled package (it might have been the other way around; not quite sure). Anyway, apache+php could not be installed from packages. I had to compile them from ports. I hated that and could not understand why a so common setting is not on by default.