From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 15 19:32:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA05385 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:32:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA05251 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:32:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA23929; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 21:32:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id VAA06495; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 21:32:03 -0500 (CDT) To: "Kevin Liquori" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports and Packages References: <199804160041.TAA15494@dfw-ix12.ix.netcom.com> From: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 15 Apr 1998 21:32:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: "Kevin Liquori"'s message of "Wed, 15 Apr 1998 20:40:42 -0400" Message-ID: <874szujy3h.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.3/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Kevin Liquori" writes: > What's the difference between ports and packages? I saw the information on > the website but I'm still a bit confused. Are ports full versions of > programs or do they just convert them for FreeBSD use? Packages are compiled ports. So with ports you need to actually do the compiling (though it *should* go very smoothly since the required patches will have been applied); with packages you just install (with pkg_add). The advantage to ports is that they are more current... sometimes packages can be quite out of date. also there are not as many packages as there are ports for the same reason. -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message