From: Marc Espie (espienerim.net)
Date: Fri Aug 29 2008 - 05:43:43 CDT

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On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 01:31:32PM -0600, macintoshzoom wrote:
> On my 4.4 i386 make update on ports kde fetches the distfiles/sources
> and build the packages even when not installed at all nor requested.

Yes, that's a feature...

make update has to build the packages to know whether or not it needs
to update them.

You can reverse the process by running pkg_add -ui with a SRC url in
the PKG_PATH.

This is usually rather painful, if you can live with compiled snapshot
packages, that's simpler.

Except for the few people who actually develop new ports and perform
quality insurance on the existing builds, it's much simpler to just use
the binary packages for most things, and only build from source when you
really have a good reason to do so.

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