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.
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