Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 10:22:46 -0800 From: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> To: Voicu Liviu <pacman@huji.ac.il>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Message-ID: <200212091022.46104.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <200212091621.01368.pacman@huji.ac.il> References: <000701c29f5b$f079a720$952b6e94@lucifer> <200212091621.01368.pacman@huji.ac.il>
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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
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