Ports should provide knobs disabling unwanted network services

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 04:03:09AM -0700, Beeblebrox wrote:
> Sorry for the late reply, everyone - I was distracted with some other things
> for a while.
> 
> PATCHING:
> I'll probably have to look through the syntax of "OPTIONS" in the Makefiles
> of other KDE / CMAKE ports to get a handle on how to implement.
> 
> Bapt >> you can have it installed on your system but not actually starting
> it.
> Yes, once it's installed, you can elect to not start the service - That's
> obvious.
> The problem is, source-file downloads are quite large and I really do not
> want to spend my bandwidth or compile time / cpu power on something I have
> no intention to use. As an example, the samba-client port downloads the
> entire samba tarball which is around 30MB. Add Avahi-mdsn stuff and you will
> probably get about 100MB worth of unwanted downloads. Plus, the download
> will not be a one-time problem, it will repeat for every update of those
> ports.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

I'm speaking about the default because the default will lead to package
creation, and binary packages does not have the large tarballs :).

regards,
Bapt
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