On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:38:33 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > I always keep saying the ideal > situation would be that you could customise and compile just your own > really mission critical software and freely mix that with installing > pre-compiled packages of anything else from the public repositories.
To be honest, that's what I'm doing for many years now. I tend to compile only those ports where it is either required in order to obtain the software because no suitable package does exist (e. g. OpenOffice), or because I intendedly want to have access to compile-time options (e. g. mplayer), which can also apply when specific optimization is needed in order to get something into a usable state on older hardware. For everything else, packages are fine. Mixing those forms (and maybe assuming that ports can be either handled by the native "make method" or one of the port management tools such as portmaster) is possible. Of course you have to think first, then do, but I assume it's not needed mentioning. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
