On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 10:10:20AM -0400, sven falempin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 4:23 AM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > Is there any particular reason for building from source anyway? > > Thank you for the pointers, > i wanted to have a lighter version , and > it is probably not a silly idea because someone already did it > but before building with Flavors, i just wanted to build the basic package.
I don't see why compiling the subversion port would be useful. The subversion port only has PSEUDO_FLAVORS, which means you can compile just the core 'subversion' package with less build dependencies installed if you want, and avoid also compiling the py-subversion, ruby-subversion, etc. sub-packages. This can be useful on a -current OpenBSD system in case packages and base system sets on the mirrors are out of sync with respect to base system libraries, and you need subversion on your -current system "right now". But there is no advantage to compiling this port on a -release system. As long as you don't install additional packages like py-subversion or ruby-subversion, the behaviour and content of the core 'subversion' package on official mirrors and the one you've compiled is effectively identical. (There is one exception: The 'maintainer_mode' flavor enables additional debugging output, but it doesn't sound like that's what you want.)
