When will binary packages be back?

[Jeff Tipton]

On 04/10/2013 22:19, Mike. wrote:
> On 4/10/2013 at 11:39 AM Brett Glass wrote:
>
> |For many years, I've used FreeBSD binary packages to avoid long
> |waits and/or having to set up a special build machine when creating
> |small systems. But even though the development server security
> |breach is now long past, there are no published binary packages for
> |FreeBSD 9.1. When will they be back?
>   =============
>
>
> Additionally, for me, building from ports for me has tended to pull in
> many, many X-windows support files when they are not needed.
>
> Specifically, I run a non-windowing system using command line tools.
> When I tried to compile Samba from ports, I finally killed the 'make'
> stage after three hours of compiling X-windows stuff.
>
> Nowhere had I ever spcified that the system was running X or any other
> windowing system.  Yet, there it was, three hours of wasted time.
>
> I never had such issues when installing from packages.
>
>
>
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@Mike

Then you must have selected some non-default options that have pulled in 
those as dependencies. You can remove them by:

make rmconfig

or, including all dependent ports:

make rmconfig-recursive

-Jeff