On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote: > Generaly, I find the precompiled defaults quite sensible > in most of the packaging systems, having subpackages/flavors/variants etc. > it surprises me that you "always" need to compile the port yourself. >
Linux-like package systems tend to split things up so you can add functionality with plug-in ports, at a cost in maintainability of the package system. Build from source setups (pkgsrc/ports) tend to use build options/variants instead, and the packages become less useful as a result. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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