On 2007/09/10 12:48, nicodache wrote: > package are nice, but hwo do they handle flavor ?
for some applications, packages are built with various (at least the more popular) FLAVORs. for others, you need to build the packages from ports yourself. > because I installed a system without X, and each time in try to > install (by ports) a new software, it tries to compile it using X, and > thus fails. building from ports without X is not supported (including those that don't need X to run). note that with 4.2, you'll need at least some of xbase to use most packages, since that's where libexpat (used by gettext, in turn used by a sizable chunk of the package collection) now comes from.
