From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 17 20: 2:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.alphaque.com (ns2.alphaque.com [202.185.254.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7860B37B718 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 20:02:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Received: (qmail 16331 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2001 04:02:48 -0000 Received: from j152.brf85.jaring.my (HELO prophet.alphaque.com) (161.142.154.166) by ns2.alphaque.com with SMTP; 18 Mar 2001 04:02:48 -0000 Received: from localhost (x1b0np@localhost.alphaque.com [127.0.0.1]) by prophet.alphaque.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2HL6U202376; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 05:06:30 +0800 (MYT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 05:06:29 +0800 (MYT) From: Dinesh Nair To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Eric M Logan , "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: ports vs. packages... In-Reply-To: <20010317125349.E22316@mollari.cthul.hu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > There are three main benefits I can think of: the fourth, for me is * pulling down the gzipped sources off a 56k dialup is a lot faster than pulling down binary packages off a web/ftp site if a cdrom is not available for some reason or another. --dinesh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message