From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 14:58:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C56D81065670 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:58:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from antonio@antonioshome.net) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64E9F8FC16 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:58:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb33 with SMTP id 33so26208wyb.13 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:58:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.172.194 with SMTP id t44mr187759wel.54.1276181936752; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:58:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.167.137 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:58:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:58:56 +0200 Message-ID: From: Antonio Vieiro To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Question on packages and ports (and versions) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:58:59 -0000 Hi all, I can't find an answer to this question, so I decided to post here. Since I'm not very good at english let me ask this with an example. I assume that packages and ports may have different versions of the same software (am I right?) so, for instance, if you install gnome with packages you can have a certain "glib" version (say 1.0), but if you install gnome with ports you can have a more recent "glib" version (say 1.1). Now my question is, am I right on this assumption? If so, may I have those two versions installed at the same time (from a package and a port)? How does software from packages and ports interfere each other? Does software installed from packages live in different directories than software installed from ports? If not, how does FreeBSD select one over the other? Thanks in advance, Antonio