Ok, so installed portmaster and I'm trying with it, I'm hoping it won't take time.So I've been up all night and my vim installation is still going on.I have an amazon ec2 freebsd server setup. I was hoping to setup jails, which took 4-5 hours to make world then crashed. I got that fixed and realized I didn't have vim. I google and found this article.So like a moron I did a make install for vim instead of vim-lite like the article says. It has been 5 hours or so and it's still going on and I have no clue what to do. It also keeps coming up with different prompts which I have to answer to continue.If I kill this installation, can I just start from scratch and install vim-lite? Will my system will be ok? Will it take this long again?Should I wait? I can't stay up any longer though to keep pressing enter!Background: On EC2 freebsd doesn't come with ports installed at all. So I installed it, took some time. Other than that, since I did make install clean inside /usr/ports/editors/vim/ it has just been spitting at my screen non-stop.
vim install on freebsd has taken 5 hours and counting
vim;software installation;freebsd;amazon ec2
It is perfectly safe to stop the build. If the system has already installed some of the dependencies, you can simply uninstall them, using a tool like ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves. You can then start again with the editors/vim-lite port, which has a much smaller list of dependencies (only gettext and libiconv, instead of the 72 dependencies for the full editors/vim port!), so should build much more quickly.