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Date:      Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:54:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jason Hunt <leth@primus.ca>
To:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Lewis Watson <lists@visionsix.com>
Subject:   Re: Ports or From Source?
Message-ID:  <20021011133312.T59319-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <001701c2708e$d1432260$a977ca41@yogi>

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On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Lewis Watson wrote:

> On freebsd I see there is a ports collection and I am
> wondering what to do here and what others do; compile from original source
> or build from the port.
>
> I see that the apache ports are running the latest version of apache so it
> for example seems to stay current. What is the preferred way to go with
> this?

Personally, I have always built everything from ports with the exception
of Apache+PHP, MySQL, and anything else that I want to make major
configuration customizations with.


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