From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 20 16:00:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05089 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 16:00:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA05042 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 16:00:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA08349; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 15:59:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Chris Faehl cc: Ted Spradley , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: after the release ... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 20 Mar 1998 16:47:23 MST." Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 15:59:43 -0800 Message-ID: <8345.890438383@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > The reason pkg_add is preferable is that make; make install is obtuse, and > provides no clue to uninitiated admins what's going on. pkg_add, however There's an even more important aspect to this that folks are missing - some folks don't have *room* for the prerequisite sources to patch, or they have similar shortcomings in CPU power or memory. A binary package simply splats itself into place with very few external dependencies or prerequisites by comparison. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message