Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:07:30 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports information & removal Message-ID: <15026.22114.872144.124471@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <96960397@toto.iv>
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Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> types: > On 16-Mar-01 Power Jessie! wrote: > > From: "Faisal Gillani" <fasi_74@yahoo.com> > > > >> 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. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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