From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 11 19:38:03 2008 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 A6D941065672 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:38:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-306.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-306.bluehost.com [67.222.53.252]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 776168FC37 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:38:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 21906 invoked by uid 0); 11 Dec 2008 19:30:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy6.bluehost.com with SMTP; 11 Dec 2008 19:30:06 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=epRv7sNvPHywQJ5fCb5JZUYopAOdgXA1eUEQsgQtqie5aLDjntcTR1+3rRb3SKghWVoZOuxThVxyGsuEf6tUA2TJO2xfMpNLu7kkPjAOImQu/mDZXbAMwXGE3Il3BsCz; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LArGb-0008I1-N1 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:32:09 -0700 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:31:50 -0700 Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:31:50 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081211193150.GD4970@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4be2da2e0812062344y26eddcc9sf589531d10c71a1c@mail.gmail.com> <20081211155500.H1327@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <1229008984.2749.74.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be> <200812111838.31387.subbsd@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MAH+hnPXVZWQ5cD/" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200812111838.31387.subbsd@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors 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: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:38:03 -0000 --MAH+hnPXVZWQ5cD/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 06:38:30PM +0300, Ole wrote: > Also you can use portupgrade -PP >=20 > -PP > --use-packages-only Never use the port even if a package is not a= vail- > able either locally or remotely, although you > still have to keep your ports tree up-to-date= so > that portupgrade can check out what the latest > version of each port is. >=20 > In in some cases re-compiling it better then package usage. For example y= ou=20 > may wish for GnomeVFS support by OO, or drop GNOME support and KDE suppor= t=20 > instead. This function sets in configure by program author and when you= =20 > working with ports you can play this options I'd love to drop GNOME and KDE support for OO.o, but on my laptop I really don't have the resources to spare for compiling OO.o, so I live with whatever's in the package. Such is life. Actually, I'd love to drop OO.o too, but I haven't gained the level of familiarity with LaTeX yet to do the things I do with OO.o when making invoices. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Sterling Camden: "The Church doesn't want people calling for inquisitions." --MAH+hnPXVZWQ5cD/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAklBaqYACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKXCvQCdEWx7aNpTO54whwyHG8U92UlB 9vYAoLjOhXi5LkNIJC+dyVySkz2XqYeQ =kF6l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MAH+hnPXVZWQ5cD/--