From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Dec 9 10:22:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63D2037B401 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 10:22:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from thor.acuson.com (thor.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F243243EC2 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 10:22:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H6V0066471VRE@thor.acuson.com> for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 10:22:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 10:17:41 -0800 Received: from balderdash.acuson.com (dhcp-46-146.acuson.com [157.226.46.146]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id Y2R9QH7F; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 10:19:40 -0800 Content-return: allowed Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 10:22:46 -0800 From: Johnson David Subject: Re: In-reply-to: <200212091621.01368.pacman@huji.ac.il> To: Voicu Liviu , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <200212091022.46104.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Organization: Siemens Medical Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1255 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <000701c29f5b$f079a720$952b6e94@lucifer> <200212091621.01368.pacman@huji.ac.il> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday 09 December 2002 06:21 am, Voicu Liviu wrote: > Hi, > I'm a newbiew in FreeBSD ( usage 2 weeks ) and almost 1 year of Gentoo > that works ( in fact gentoo was created by *BSD ports ) almost like Freebsd > (i mean to the ports ) Actually, Gentoo was inspired by the *BSD ports, but they wrote their emerge system from scratch. My favorite ports system is NetBSD's, but FreeBSD's seems to be a bit more complete at the expense of a bit more kruft. Emerge looks nice, but it's not quite done (not a slam, just an observation). > The problem is how do I see what is going to be installed with some > application that I want. > Let say I want to install Mozilla so in gentoo i'll run "emerge --pretend > mozilla" and it will return me a list with all dependencies. > How do I do this in FreeBSD? Take a look at the FreeBSD handbook (installed by default or online). This has a good chapter on packages and ports with all the options. There's also some additional information in the FAQ. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message