On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Kevin K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That said: I do understand what you're saying, and yes, I can see why > > you would want that. It does make sense, and it's reasonable. It's > > just hard to achieve. I don't think other mainstream OSes (e.g. Linux) > > offer this ability either, though. Am I wrong? > > Redhat's up2date/yum ? I'm not 100% certain though. >
OpenBSD's pkg_add has an -i option that allows options, their binary packages are build with various options, also they recommend using their binary packages as opposed to building your own. Although with FreeBSD having over 18000 ports, I don't see it as viable given constraints. some people are just ungrateful for what they already have, even if they have options. Marko, there is nothing stopping you from building binary packages on another machine with the options YOU want, some ports might not remember what it is was you specified, well there are work arounds, just remember /etc/make.conf is just like a Makefile so you could do something like this: .if ${.CURDIR:M*/ports} .if ${.CURDIR:M*/apache22} WITH_APR_FROM_PORTS= WITH_MPM=worker WITH_PGSQL= WITH_STATIC_SUPPORT= WITH_SQLITE= WITH_KQUEUE_SUPPORT= WITH_THREADS= .endif .endif by the way, it's a suggestion, nothing more. But Works For Me (TM). I would love to see something like the way pkgsrc handles options in ports: PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS = ssl pam kerberos acl ads ldap lang-en-GB gssapi kqueue sasl sqlite apr1 apache22 PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS += -debug -mysql -ruby-build-ri-db PKG_OPTIONS.sudo = -kerberos > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > -- Best regards, Brad _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"