Port Build options

[Sam Fourman Jr.]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Stan Gammons <s_gammons at charter.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 04:53 -0400, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
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> > Stan,
> >
> > This is a interesting question and one that I struggled with back when I
> > first came to open source YEARS ago...
> > what time and experience will taught me is that, more is almost ALWAYS,
> NOT
> > better... so really there is no upside at all to building all of the
> ports
> > with all of the options... even if it COULD be done...
> >
> > on FreeBSD, I can tell you that the packages are build with the default
> > options... that is to say... when you type "make install" if the port has
> > options, whatever is "checked" when the screen comes up, is what the
> > package would have...
>
> Thanks everyone for the replies on this.  The reason I ask is I continue
> to struggle to get KDE4 to work the way I want. Or perhaps I should say
> the way it works on Linux. I've used FreeBSD for several years, but this
> is the first time I'd tried to make a graphical interface work with it.
> Perhaps that's a question/problem for another list and best not posted
> here.
>
> Stan,
 Straightup, KDE4 is real hard, getting all the options correct, isn't a
science like it should be, in practice it turns out to be more of a
witchcraft / balancing act
my advice is, download PC-BSD:
http://iso.cdn.pcbsd.org/9.1-RELEASE/amd64/PCBSD9.1-RELEASE-x64-USBFULL-latest.img.bz2
install it.. use it... see if it works how you want... these guys put a TON
of work into it... they have a wifi manager, gpart GUI, app cafe, and its a
rolling release...
if you find that it works the way you like, then hit me up off list, we can
"play around" and see what port options to use where...



> Stan
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Sam Fourman Jr.