On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Jay K <jay.kr...@cornell.edu> wrote: > > using binary packages is only >> recommend solution for apps. Just small of amounts must be compiled >> from ports like that jdk > > Understood and I usually do. > B (jdk isn't small! :)) > The request was for both. > > > This reminds me another request though. > B But I'll have to sit through the entire FAQ.
and this http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon_2010_dpb/index.html and especially this may be interesting for you http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon_2010_pkg_add/index.html > > > When building a package from source, I want a way to prefer installing > dependencies from prebuilt packages. If there is some dependency which is already installed then of course it's not builded again. > > > What I did lately is see what it prints as the dependencies, control-c, manually install > those binary packages, then come back and rerun the higher level source build. > Or I just let it run a while and do build unnecessarily from source. > > > Thanks, > B - Jay
