On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Jay K <jay.krell@cornell.edu> wrote:
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> using binary packages is only
>> recommend solution for apps. Just small of amounts must be compiled
>> from ports like that jdk
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> Understood and I usually do.
> B  (jdk isn't small! :))
> The request was for both.
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> 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

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> 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.

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> What I did lately is see what it prints as the dependencies, control-c,
manually install
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> those binary packages, then come back and rerun the higher level source
build.
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> Or I just let it run a while and do build unnecessarily from source.
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> Thanks,
> B - Jay