4 Jul
2006
4 Jul
'06
4:13 p.m.
Liam Proven wrote:
On 6/24/06, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>
wrote:
I always build from pkgsrc. I've learned that the quality of
many packages is not anywhere near the same caliber as the
core NBSD distribution. Often, looking through the 'make
configure' output, I will spot things that aren't quite right.
Or, options that the package builder has decided not to
include (that *I* might want!). And, looking through the
'make build' often turns up warnings that are suspicious
enough to merit further exploration -- and turn up outright
errors (that someone will eventually report and have to
track down).
If you just want to be a "user" and aren't concerned about
fixing things, then binaries are the way to go. :-(
On 6/24/2006 at 12:42 AM der Mouse wrote:
But *why*? Why not just pull down binaries?
Are you trying to do a really demanding soak-test on it or something?
Merely curious... And, basically, the answer is "yes".
When I start a build of the world
on the ?V2, I don't expect it to complete in less than a week. (The
kernel takes more like a day.)
Well, on the aforementioned 800 MHz P3, building the gnome
meta-package is
well into its second day (just started making "evolution").