Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 13:00:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, Maury Markowitz <maury@OAAI.COM>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Presenting FreeBSD to a Linux Users Group? Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.990626125857.11018A-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <3773FF06.D310678C@softweyr.com>
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On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > Except in FreeBSD, you don't have to "go out on the net and get the pkg" > because pkg_add does that for you. Yup, you can pkg_add a URL and any > packages it depends on will be automagically fetched and installed if > they don't already exist on the system. # pkg_add -r zsh > Is that cool, or what? '-r' is even cooler. It's smart enought to know where to look for the package without the user having to hunt the right directory. :> - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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