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From: "Steve Brown" <gtabug@prayforwind.com>
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Subject: Re: port vs package
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:46:18 -0500
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/usr/ports        gets source, builds, installs your app (I want to
see/change code)
pkg_add        gets pre-built binaries, installs your app (just install it
please... now!)

Ports will get binaries and install them if no source availiable(like
Netscape),
pkg_add will get sources and build if nescessary(Opera support files needed
to install Opera)

But ports "prefers" source. Both work, pkg_add is -much- faster and (I've
found) slightly more reliable (because if the binaries are availiable no
possibility of source-compilation errors). Ports is of course very much more
flexible for the gurus who actually have enough knowhow to fix things ;)

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: "brain_damaged" <brain_damaged@florida-wireless.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: November 8, 2001 11:49 AM
Subject: port vs package


> Hello
> what is the differences between a PORT and a Package ? Is one better than
the other ?
> Seems alot of them are not uptodate with the software on the home sites of
that software.
> I assume cuz it was not written for Fbsd so whoever "ported" it has a
different version number ?
>
> What is the best way to install software ?
> I have done a /stand/sysinstall but can not always find what I want but
yet if i go to the freebsd homepage and do a search I find it but not thru
the /stand/sysinstall.
>
> thanks
> md
>
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