<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Jan Stary <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hans@stare.cz" target="_blank">hans@stare.cz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":23j" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">Generaly, I find the precompiled defaults quite sensible<br>
in most of the packaging systems, having subpackages/flavors/variants etc.<br>
it surprises me that you "always" need to compile the port yourself.</div></blockquote></div><br>Linux-like package systems tend to split things up so you can add functionality with plug-in ports, at a cost in maintainability of the package system. Build from source setups (pkgsrc/ports) tend to use build options/variants instead, and the packages become less useful as a result.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div>
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