Re: Installing Signal

If I wanted to be forced to build everything from source, I'd run Gentoo.

As a donor to the project, it grieves me to say that the lack of non-outdated packages for tier-1 desktop applications excludes FreeBSD as a bona fide desktop OS.

It's a shame.
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2024-08-11T11:30:30Z D'Arcy Cain <darcy@druid.net>:

> On 2024-08-11 06:41, Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote:
>>   If you insist on trying to build multiple ports at the same time in an automated fashion then you would want to try poudriere (no experience with synth to know if it does it too). In addition to being able to define MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER= (which defaults to 1 on poudriere) you can set
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> In fact it defaults to the number of CPUs that you have which makes the most sense.  It defaulted to 2 on my main work build server and 4 on my home server.  If you have mult-threaded CPUs (do they even make single threaded any more?) I suppose to could bump it but I am not sure how much that would buy you.
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> Note that poudriere will build fewer if it can't meet all the dependencies.  I am building now and it dropped to 1 build since it is needed for everything else.
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