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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:04:06 +0100 (CET)
From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To: Power Jessie! <jessie@power-jessie.net>
Subject: Re: ports information & removal
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	Faisal Gillani <fasi_74@yahoo.com>
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On 16-Mar-01 Power Jessie! wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Faisal Gillani" <fasi_74@yahoo.com>
> To: "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 11:03 AM
> Subject: ports information & removal
> 
> 
>> 1 How can we see which ports are install in our system ?
> 
> pkg_info
> 
>> 2 how can we remove selected ?
> 
> pkg_delete
> 
>> 3 what does the install program show if it encounter any dependicies
> problem?
> 
> error message(s), i guess
> 
>> 4 why we call these ports why not pakages like other os ?
> 
> why call them 'packages' if we can call them 'ports'?

And they are not exactky the same thing either. Packages are precompiled
binaries, ports are merely (patched) source. AFAIK.


>>
>> hope you answer them all
>> thanks
>>
>>
> 
> yah..
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> jessie
>>
>>
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