From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 27 14:05:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE67D16A4B3 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 14:05:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-02.tampabay.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.1.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 662214402D for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 14:05:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tbstep@tampabay.rr.com) Received: from 2416459hfc31.tampabay.rr.com (2416459hfc31.tampabay.rr.com [24.164.59.31])h8RL5SaH011883 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 17:05:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Todd Stephens To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 16:59:50 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 X-Marks-The-Spot: Yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309271659.50019.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> Subject: Port installation methods X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:05:31 -0000 Is there any benefit to using the standard 'make' method of installing ports over the 'portinstall' command (or portupgrade -N), or vice-versa? -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato