> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Asemi [mailto:asemisldkfj@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2006 11:16 AM
> To: 'Marc Coevoet'
> Cc: netbsd-users@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: KDE pkg install
> 
> Marc Coevoet wrote:
> > Looks like I am going trough the dependency tree ..
> > ...
> > I'll have to learn to work with updating the dependency tree (there 
> > should be a command), bu now the machine is already 6 hours busy 
> > compiling, without erors, I'll have KDE soon now..
> 
> I actually had a similar ordeal just yesterday when trying to compile 
> balsa2 from pkgsrc.  I went through libgnomeui, libgnome, libbonoboui, =


I went through all of that for years.  Then I learned about pkg_comp.   T=
hat helped a lot because it builds packages without disrupting your enjoy=
ment of your computer.

After a couple of years of that, I got tired of waiting for pkg_comp.  I =
decided that I wanted my computer to be more of an appliance and less of =
a hobby, so when NetBSD 3.0 came out, I gave up pkg_comp.  Now, I just us=
e the binary packages on ftp.netbsd.org.  It's such a joy to not have to =
wait around for packages to build.  They just install!  My new best frien=
d is

sudo pkg_add -u -u ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc-2005Q4=
/NetBSD-3.0/i386/All/$PACKAGENAME.tgz

That's the way it should be.  Packages Just Install.  Things Just Work.

David Talmage