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+permalink: "/posts/{{categories}}/{{slug}}"
+title: Now This is a Minimal Install!
+categories:
+  - technology
+  - unix
+tags:
+  - FreeBSD
+  - packages
+  - poudriere
+  - saneness
+excerpt_separator: "\n\n\n"
+published_date: "2020-07-26 15:21:13 +0000"
+layout: post.liquid
+is_draft: false
+---
+Now this is a minimal install!
+
+I just got done configuring Poudriere on Freebsd 12.1-RELEASE. The awesome
+thing about it is it allows you to configure and maintain your own package
+repository. All of the ports and their dependencies are built from source with
+personalized options. That means that I can maintain my own repo of just the
+packages I need with just the compile-time options I need. For example, for the
+Nvidia driver set I disabled all Wayland related flags. I use Xorg so there was
+no need to have that functionality built in.
+
+Compile times are pretty long but I hope to change that by upgrading my home
+server to FreeBSD as well (from Ubuntu Server). Then I can configure poudriere
+to serve up a ports tree and my own pkg repo from there. The server is a lot
+faster than my laptop and will build packages way faster, and I'll be able to
+use those packages on both the server and my laptop and any jails I have
+running. Jails (and ZFS) also make poudriere really cool to use as all of the
+building is done inside a jail. When the time comes I can just remove the jail
+and poudriere ports tree from my laptop and update pkg to point to my web
+server.
+
+This is, as I understand it, the sane way to do package management in FreeBSD.
+The binary package repo is basically the ports tree pre-assembled with default
+options. Sometimes those packages are compiled without functionality that most
+users don't need. In those situations, you're forced to use ports. The trouble
+is you're not really supposed to mix ports and binary packages. The reason,
+again as I understand it, is because ports are updated more frequently. So
+binary packages and ports can have different dependency versions, which can
+sometimes break compatibility on an upgrade. Most FreeBSD users recommend
+installing everything with ports (which is just a make install inside the local
+tree) but then you lose the package management features that come with pkg.
+Poudriere lets you kind of do both by creating your "own personal binary repo"
+out of a list of preconfigured, pre-built ports.
+
+FreeBSD rocks.
+
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+
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+permalink: "/posts/{{categories}}/{{slug}}"
+title: Dear God Why Are PDF Editors Such an Ordeal?
+categories: []
+tags: []
+excerpt_separator: "\n\n\n"
+layout: post.liquid
+is_draft: true
+---
+
+All PDF editors/mergers/tools either:
+
+1. Cost hundreds of dollars
+1. Require uploading private documents to a server for processing
+1. Leave watermarks or charge you for "pro" features
+1. Are blatant malware
+
+Except mupdf and mutool, which are absolutely amazing.