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Date:      Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:27:51 +0100
From:      Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?
Message-ID:  <936195408.20050227152751@wanadoo.fr>
In-Reply-To: <200502270835.07745.zettel@acm.org>
References:  <20050226130211.4162005f.albi@scii.nl> <20050227045510.M67328@reiteration.net> <956914133.20050227100144@wanadoo.fr> <200502270835.07745.zettel@acm.org>

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Leonard Zettel writes:

> My own experiences have given me a definite bias toward using the
> ports system to compile stuff to be added to my system rather than
> going with the binary packages.  I get the impression that many
> port maintainers who are fairly careful about keeping their port
> versions workable and patched only give a relative lick and promise
> to their packages.

Unfortunately, bugs in the handling of my SCSI disks prevent me from
doing anything that is disk-intensive without crashing the system, so
downloading the ports collection probably won't be possible.

-- 
Anthony




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