Questions from a Linux refugee

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2015 12:47:39 +0000, Mike Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2015 13:29:34 +0100
> Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> 
> > You can use portmaster with the -P or -PP switches (to force
> > the use of binary packages when they are available) to avoid
> > building all the dependencies from source.
> 
> Unfortunately this has not been possible since the switch to pkg-ng.

Thanks for raising awareness! Until it becomes available,
it's probably not that wrong to perform a command construct
like "make missing | pkg install" to get the dependencies
via pkg where possible, and then use compiling from source
where neccessary.



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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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