Mixing ports and pkgng

Michael Sierchio kudzu at tenebras.com
Sat Apr 5 18:07:27 UTC 2014


On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Matthew Pherigo <hybrid120 at gmail.com>wrote:
>...

> if I change the options for package A, but leave its dependencies B and C
> alone, is there any ports management program that will automatically
> recognize this and use pkgng for B and C, but compile A from source?
>

I'd just install package A, which installs dependencies, then make the port
with the appropriate options, make package, then force the install.

Crude but almost always effective.

- M


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