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To: Simon Siemonsma <s.siemonsma@hccnet.nl>
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Subject: Re: Package or Ports CVSup
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in message <200112281842.TAA03146@smtp.hccnet.nl>, 
wrote Simon Siemonsma thusly...
>
> Personally I think for big programs it's easier to use the packages.
> It is avoiding a lot a compiling time.
...
> Building X or KDE from the ports is not a nice experience.

to me, time is not much of a worry as much as disk space and missing
dependencies are.  i have to get creative (on disk space management)
whenever i compile X.  it's actually a satisfying and enlightening
experience (in software design) when a time consuming compile
process completes w/o any problems.


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