Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 00:14:19 -0400 From: David Banning <david@skytracker.ca> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ports versus packages Message-ID: <20030523001419.A81785@skytrackercanada.com>
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I was talking to a debian Linux guy the other day who preferred debians' precompiled packages because, as he put it, "you just load it, and go, and it always works -." What is the benifit for us to compile versus just installing the package? - and how come we tend to use the pre-compiled packages less than some of our fellow *nix users? - (at least that's my perception) --
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