From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 16 10: 7:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BAF8737B718 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:07:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 93179 invoked by uid 100); 16 Mar 2001 18:07:30 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15026.22114.872144.124471@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:07:30 -0600 To: Micke Josefsson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports information & removal In-Reply-To: <96960397@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Micke Josefsson types: > On 16-Mar-01 Power Jessie! wrote: > > From: "Faisal Gillani" > > > >> 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. Ports are pointers to the sources, and patches for them. Everything you need to compile and install the sources, in fact. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message