From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 28 10:57: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC0B037B422 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:57:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16K2Bf-0004z6-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 18:56:59 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id F146B116E; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 19:56:57 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 19:56:57 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package or Ports CVSup Message-ID: <20011228185657.GA1122@raggedclown.net> References: <01f801c18f5e$558baf00$0101a8c0@haloflightleader.net> <200112281842.TAA03146@smtp.hccnet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200112281842.TAA03146@smtp.hccnet.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i 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 usually use the ports, it's kind of satisfying to know it's all compiling along merrily. However X/KDE, as pointed out below takes an incredible length of time. I compiled it on a 1Ghz Pentium with 512MB memory off of a SCSI disk installation .. I also translated the whole of War and Peace into Latvian at the same time. It is *big*. -- Regards Cliff On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 07:47:23PM +0000, Simon Siemonsma wrote: > Personally I think for big programs it's easier to use the packages. It is > avoiding a lot a compiling time. For small programs I prefer the ports, > because it's saving time to find out where the package is. > Building X or KDE from the ports is not a nice experience. CVSup actually is > not that bad. > > Simon Siemonsma > > On Friday 28 December 2001 05:13, you wrote: > > Question: > > Do you guys usually build from the ports or install from packages the CVSup > > tool? > > > > This is my first time installing CVSup. I went to /usr/ports/net/cvsup, > > and then I hit make. It's downloading all kinds of stuff like XFree86 > > parts. And it's still continuing on the compile. It's taking over an hour > > now. Do you guys normally install CVSup from package or port? Just want > > to find out the common practice. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Peter > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message