On 28 January 2012 19:54, Henry Olyer wrote:
> I've been using FBSD since 2000 and a Macsyma user since 1976.
>
> And done my own FBSD installs since 5.1, I think, maybe a few before. For
> those early years I was content to install a lisp and then do my own FTP's,
> getting maxima and doing thin
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 08:07:51PM -0600, Robert Bonomi wrote:
>
> Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 08:09:34PM +0100, Michel Talon wrote:
> >
> > > occur, a port maintainer should only include the *strict minimum*
> > > dependencies necessary to make the port work, it is not his jo
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 01:30:37AM +0100, Michel Talon wrote:
>Agreed. That is why it is an _option_ now.
>
> Yes but ON by default, which is the problem. It is even a bigger problem
> when you realize you would like using other versions of TeX than the
> standard one, for example you would
Roland Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 08:09:34PM +0100, Michel Talon wrote:
>
> > occur, a port maintainer should only include the *strict minimum*
> > dependencies necessary to make the port work, it is not his job to include
> > the whole kitchen sink of dependencies that could be usefu
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 08:09:34PM +0100, Michel Talon wrote:
> Gnuplot is the prototypical example of a port which is badly managed. There
> are far too many dependencies which are absolutely *non necessary* There is
> absolutely no necessity of having TeX (in any form whatsoever) to run
> Gnuplot
I've only installed a few programs from packages at installation time;
almost all of my installations and upgrades have been by compiling from
ports and then upgrading (with recompilation) using portupgrade.
This is a habit I got into a long time ago, and which I continue without
any specific
I've been using FBSD since 2000 and a Macsyma user since 1976.
And done my own FBSD installs since 5.1, I think, maybe a few before. For
those early years I was content to install a lisp and then do my own FTP's,
getting maxima and doing things manually. No problems.
But the installs have never
Roland Smith wrote:
The default build of gnuplot is quite heavy, pulling in wxwidgets and teTeX.
Personally, I would recommend the following settings: enable X11, GD, gridb ox,
thinsplines and cairo, and disable the rest; pdflib didn't work last time I
tried it. WXwidgets is overkill IMO, the stan
I just compiled maxima from ports using default settings under
FreeBSD 8-STABLE (updated 12/24/2011) and had no problems with the compile
(i.e., I just su'd to root, did a "cd /usr/ports/math/maxima;make").
This was under the amd64 version of FreeBSD (hardware is a Tyan S4882 quad
Opteron).
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 02:57:02AM -0500, Henry Olyer wrote:
> When I put up any version of FBSD I usually try to install Maxima. Which
> fails because the sub-install of gnuplot fails.
>
> I go to through various work-arounds, different things.
>
> But Saturday I will be
I've said this here before. And been attacked, pretty much by everyone.
But I was telling the truth.
When I put up any version of FBSD I usually try to install Maxima. Which
fails because the sub-install of gnuplot fails.
I go to through various work-arounds, different things.
But Satur
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