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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. :>

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