From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 13:41: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7197037B400 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 13:40:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwoom ([80.1.77.139]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020305214056.UMEN22101.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@fwoom>; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 21:40:56 +0000 Message-ID: <002501c1c48e$fcfddbe0$6501a8c0@fwoom> From: "mattmobile" To: "Justin L Boss" , "FreeBSD-Questions" References: <3C8537E3.6010703@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Port Colection Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 21:44:53 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 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 > 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. it also means that you compile against the downloaded libs I've had packages fail when compiling succeeds (version clashes being the culprit). I have default optimizations and cpu target set for the compiler, we don't want everything targetted at the 486 instruction set! Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message