-------- Original Message --------
On 10/10/24 8:56 PM, Timo Myyrä <timo.myyra@bittivirhe.fi> wrote:

>  On Thu, Oct 10 2024, Joe B wrote:
>  
>  > Hello,
>  >
>  > I just installed openbsd and I'm happy.. coming from FreeBSD and lots of stuff are different.
>  >
>  > I like ports to have options between binary and source.
>  >
>  > In freebsd you could make showconfig to see whats configured by default. you could do make config to change the default options then make install clean..
>  >
>  > Also i would do this
>  >
>  > - make config (change stuff)
>  > - export BATCH=y
>  > - make install clean and everything was fine
>  >
>  > Ports on openbsd are so different.
>  >
>  > What do you recommend me do ? i would like to add ssl put stuff in or
>  > whatever. I was looking at https://man.openbsd.org/ports and
>  > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/ports.html but i'm confused
>  >
>  > Thanks
>  >
>  > Joe
>  
>  OpenBSD does not really encourage to tinker with ports that much.
>  Compiling from the ports is left for developers of the ports tree. Users
>  of the OpenBSD should be using the binary packages. The packages are
>  compiled most common options enabled but some packages provide few
>  different "flavors". For example if you install emacs with pkg_add it
>  will poll which flavor you want:
>  
>  $ doas pkg_add emacs
>  quirks-7.53 signed on 2024-10-09T20:18:24Z
>  quirks-7.50->7.53: ok
>  Ambiguous: choose package for emacs
>  a       0: <None>
>          1: emacs-29.4p0-gtk2
>          2: emacs-29.4p0-gtk3
>          3: emacs-29.4p0-no_x11

Thanks for the reply..

Will do. Love openBSD so far and learning more daily. The FAQ is like the best thing ever

Joe