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Date:      Sun, 18 Mar 2001 05:06:29 +0800 (MYT)
From:      Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Eric M Logan <eric_m_logan@yahoo.com>, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ports vs. packages...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103180504530.1671-100000@prophet.alphaque.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010317125349.E22316@mollari.cthul.hu>

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On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> There are three main benefits I can think of:

the fourth, for me is

*	pulling down the gzipped sources off a 56k dialup is a lot faster
	than pulling down binary packages off a web/ftp site if a cdrom is
	not available for some reason or another.

--dinesh


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