On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 09:50:24AM -0500, Edward Lopez-Acosta wrote: > I have noticed that when building packages I am required to install > dependencies globally which leads to a messy system if I don't remember to > remove them. This is an issue when building ports that may not be installed > on the same system.
RTFM, See proot(1) and dpb(1) and bulk(8) Why do you build packages yourself, btw ? It takes time and space, and you can just use the trusted binary packages unless you have very good reasons to avoid them. > Is it possible to somehow have the make process use a chroot and avoid > installing packages globally? Slight tangent, but why do pkg_add/pkg_delete > not prompt to confirm before taking actions which to me would make much more > sense than just doing the action right away. This is Unix. Commands do stuff by default. Observe rm. By default, it removes files.
