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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