From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 28 10:59:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B77537B405 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:59:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBSIxAm27397; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:59:10 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:59:09 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Simon Siemonsma Cc: Peter Ong , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package or Ports CVSup Message-ID: <20011228185909.GF77887@dan.emsphone.com> 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 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error 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 In the last episode (Dec 28), Simon Siemonsma said: > 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. You don't need to know where the package is; "pkg_add -r packagename" will fetch and install it automatically. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message