[moved from toolchain] GCC5: pkg vs. ports

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Thu Feb 4 14:58:52 UTC 2016


On 02/04/16 02:23, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote:
> On 03.02.2016 22:03, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
>> *Eeeeeek* (RTFM), I use pkg by default, ports only when necessary
>> (graphite for gcc5, flash for firefox/opera, etc.), so I am not as
>> familiar w/ ports ai I should be :-/ ....
>
> If you need individual options for ports more often for more than one 
> pc have a look at poudriere.
>
> I have a poudriere server building all my pkg-packages with the 
> different options my different servers need. This allows me to stay 
> with pkg at the single server and have full flexibility in management 
> of my ports.
>
> Greetings,
> Torsten
>


Roger that, for now I will stay where I am, all I need on that box 
(dev-box) is gcc5+graphite. I need flash (only) on this box (daily 
driver), might need some other stuff in the future, I'll look @ 
poudriere then. Thanks.


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