From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 19 14:22:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web13604.mail.yahoo.com (web13604.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E594F37B422 for ; Sat, 19 May 2001 14:22:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bzdik@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010519212235.60872.qmail@web13604.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.122.12.184] by web13604.mail.yahoo.com; Sat, 19 May 2001 14:22:35 PDT Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 14:22:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Bzdik BSD Subject: Re: Ports and Packages Mixture To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <15110.20116.161437.414956@guru.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I asked this question before: why not incorporate [something like] apt from Debian? The only answer I got the last time that pkg_add is superior no matter what. Why does one need to delete both and then to re-install one of them? Most of you are administrators, wouldn't it save you some valuable time? Is it a "not made here" thing? This would be a killer: apt-get dist-upgrade has no analogy in any other Unix, even in the cleanest of them all - OpenBSD ;-)) please, enlighten in case I missed some fundamental Constitutional issue here. don't try "license" song, I said [something like] apt. last time Debian people raised the issue of possible incorporation FreeBSD kernel the excuse was the license "conflict", yet the underlying was the fear of losing control by some "authorities" among "leadership". Isn't FreeBSD free of this infantile crap? {dream on...} --- Mike Meyer wrote: > BSD Blood types: > > Hello. > > My first priority for installing software is by using packages > and then > > the ports collection. If the package dependencies do not have a > package, > > I'll download those dependencies using the ports collection. My > questions > > are:- > > 1. Is it safe for me to mix the packages and ports systems? > > Yes, so long as you're careful not to install multiple versions of a > package. > > > 2. I have these 2 entries when I do a # pkg_info > > png-1.0.10 > > png-1.0.7 > > Do I need to delete the older png-1.0.7? Will the deletion cause > other > > applications to fail? > > I'd say yes to the first; others may say no. Definitely yes to the > second. To delete it safely, delete them both, then reinstall the one > you want to keep. > > > 3. After using the Ports Collection to install software, are the > software > > added to the packages system? (i.e. when I do a # pkg_info , will > the > > software be shown in this output)? > > Yes. > > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more > information. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message