From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 31 15:45:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7AF437B5C9 for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 15:45:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA42769; Wed, 31 May 2000 18:45:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 18:45:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Vernon Buck Jr Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie question about Packages, & Ports In-Reply-To: <20000531211951.29891.qmail@nwcst278.netaddress.usa.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi On 31 May 2000, Vernon Buck Jr wrote: > What's the difference between a package, and a port which is better? If you can wait till tomorrow (or about midnight PDT tonight) you can find out at DaemonNews: http://www.daemonnews.org/ Short answer is ports are a method of compiling the software on your own machine, packages are pre-compiled binaries. Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message