pkg_add and package options...

Eric Schuele e.schuele at computer.org
Thu Nov 10 19:08:32 GMT 2005


Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:04:57AM +0000, Eric Schuele wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I generally build everything from the ports tree.  But I'm tired of
>>building openoffice.  It takes an enormous amount of time.
>>Additionally, the last few times it failed to build completely anyways
>>(after quite a few hours of trying).
>>
>>When I build it though... I prefer to set WITHOUT_JAVA=yes and
>>WITHOUT_MOZILLA=yes.
>>
>>I am wondering, if I were to use pkg_add... what would OO have been
>>built with.  In other words, how do I determine what is built into the 
>>packages I am pulling down... and do I have any choices about these options.
> 
> 
> Check the port makefile to determine the defaults.  Or pull down a
> default index with 'make fetchindex' and look at the list of
> dependencies.
> 
> Kris

Got it.

Thanks Kris.

-- 
Regards,
Eric


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