Hi,
I am generally installing all my required software from the ports collection which works great for me. Now I was wondering whether for some packages (e.g. for llvm) there is a way to force the use of binary packages to prevent the system from building/compiling the software package from scratch? I know there are pros and cons with using packages & ports but for me the compilation of things like llvm just take forever (i.e. hours) on my server and I would like to avoid having to wait for hours for the compilation to complete. Any hints/ideas would be appreciated as I could not find any information about this online.
Thanks.
Best regards
Sebastian
I am generally installing all my required software from the ports collection which works great for me. Now I was wondering whether for some packages (e.g. for llvm) there is a way to force the use of binary packages to prevent the system from building/compiling the software package from scratch? I know there are pros and cons with using packages & ports but for me the compilation of things like llvm just take forever (i.e. hours) on my server and I would like to avoid having to wait for hours for the compilation to complete. Any hints/ideas would be appreciated as I could not find any information about this online.
Thanks.
Best regards
Sebastian