That's good news. What should I watch for in order to know when Really Soon Now becomes Now?
Matt On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Matthew Seaman <matt...@freebsd.org>wrote: > On 14/01/2014 18:52, Chris Rees wrote: > > Mixing ports and packages is discouraged and can get messy, because > > upgrades can get out of sync... > > Although with recent developments in pkgng, that advice is going to > become outdated Real Soon Now. > > It is already possible to use mostly binary packages but compile some > yourself. However, yes, it can get messy and you need to be careful > about keeping your build tree reasonably in synch with the tree used to > build the official ports. Also, ingeneral, it's much easier to build > your ports when they are at the end of the dependency chain; ie. with > nothing else that depends on them. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey > > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
