I've installed FreeBSD12.2 on virtual machine to experiment with code development for it, gave it 50 GBs drive (since that's usually a ton of free space for basic stuff). Upon trying to install vscode from ports it gave me a ton of errors related to perl and whatnot. I then decided to upgrade ports - another error related to keymapper. So I then decided to upgrade to FreeBSD13 - which I did with no issues. So I've started compiling the freshest possible VSCode port again. Everything was going well EXCEPT it was compiling the port for whole six hours, then I just went to sleep only to wake up and find out that the compiling stopped with errors related to running out of drive space. And even before that it was asking me to compile really weird stuff like h264 and flac codecs - which is all very weird since VSCode is just a very complicated notepad to put it simply.
I'm talking here a clean FreeBSD13 with just Xfce installed and not much else. Why does VSCode need more than 50 GBs of dependencies to install. Am I missing something? How do I go about fixing it since I'm probably facing another hours and hours of compilation?
I'm talking here a clean FreeBSD13 with just Xfce installed and not much else. Why does VSCode need more than 50 GBs of dependencies to install. Am I missing something? How do I go about fixing it since I'm probably facing another hours and hours of compilation?