Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool

From: Mark Linimon <linimon_at_lonesome.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:50:58 -0600
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:23:58AM -0800, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> How am I supposed to install prebuilt packages (and the myriad of
> dependencies) from now on?

I strongly recommend using portmaster.  The manpage is very dense but
to start with, use something like the following (I'm just picking one
port at random, pkg_cutleaves, to install):

  portmaster -PP ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves

mcl
Received on Thu Dec 29 2011 - 20:50:59 UTC

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