On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 10:54:02AM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> 
> Years ago, a similar problem (the long time needed to build dependencies for
> documentation) led to the definition of this in our Poudriere setup:
> 
>    OPTIONS_UNSET= X11 GUI CUPS DOCS EXAMPLES NLS

Placed in /usr/local/etc/poudriere.conf ?
 
> The resulting packages are for headless machines, build is faster, the
> resulting packages are smaller, dependency chain is shorter, install and
> upgrade times are shorter. 

That's what I'm seeking.

> The disadvantage is that many build dependencies
> have different options than in the official repository, so they cannot be
> pre-fetched and must also be built.

Is that another way of saying "Use ports _or_ pkg, not both"?

Thanks for writing!

bob prohaska


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