can i use flags at once?

[Bruce Cran]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 13:59:40 +0000
Giorgos Tsiapaliokas <terietor at gmail.com> wrote:

> hello,
> 
> i am a gentoo user and now i am trying to install a freebsd on my
> machine. ports are great but while my machine is compiling i receive
> messages about the flags.
> 
> in gentoo i was able via the file /etc/portage/package.use to
> determine which flags i wanted to enable and which not.
> 
> is there any way to do this in FreeBSD,since gentoo's portage is
> based on ports.

The only similar mechanism is /etc/make.conf where you can put flags
such as USE_X11=yes or USE_GTK2=yes in order to build ports with X11 or
Gtk2 support.  Unlike Gentoo there's no central repository of valid
flags.

-- 
Bruce