On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 01:31:32PM -0600, macintoshzoom wrote: > On my 4.4 i386 make update on ports kde fetches the distfiles/sources > and build the packages even when not installed at all nor requested.
Yes, that's a feature... make update has to build the packages to know whether or not it needs to update them. You can reverse the process by running pkg_add -ui with a SRC url in the PKG_PATH. This is usually rather painful, if you can live with compiled snapshot packages, that's simpler. Except for the few people who actually develop new ports and perform quality insurance on the existing builds, it's much simpler to just use the binary packages for most things, and only build from source when you really have a good reason to do so.
