From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 13:33:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp012.mail.yahoo.com (smtp012.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B30F337B400 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 13:33:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from jlboss (AUTH plain) at wks-94-207-167.kscable.com (HELO yahoo.com) (jlboss@24.94.207.167) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Mar 2002 21:33:33 -0000 Message-ID: <3C853A78.5080307@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 15:36:56 -0600 From: Justin L Boss User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Everlund Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Port Colection References: <3C8537E3.6010703@yahoo.com> <3C853824.F22A135A@cs.umu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 that is also a time when I use the port PC. But not for every thing. Paul Everlund wrote: > Justin L Boss wrote: > >>Why do most people use the port collection instead of the package >>collection? I only use the PC if I cant find a pkg. The pkg takes >>considerable less time and space, So why use the port unless you >>have to. >> > > In the ports collection you're able to set various configuration > options before compiling. That way you can "tweak" the code so the > binary is capable of and can do just the things you want it to, no > more and no less. > > With a package someone else has done the configuration, and hence > you have to live with it if installing a package. > > /Paul > > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message