Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 20:10:25 +0200 From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hysterical Raisons Message-ID: <199602171810.UAA11713@cantina.clinet.fi> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of 16 Feb 1996 09:56:16 %2B0200 References: <431.824454576@time.cdrom.com>
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In article <431.824454576@time.cdrom.com> "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes:
Uh, I think it's the other way around. If you took a straw poll of
FreeBSD systems everywhere, I think you'd find that at least 90% of
them populated their /usr/local directories almost *exclusively* from
the ports collection.
Are you quite sure about this? Most of stuff in our local/bin is installed
from original source, not from ports. I use ports as a last resort, not as
the primary source. Last time we used ports we got a shareware version
which would cost $2000 to register, for functionality I think I can arrange
to be written from scratch for the same price, though there already is
older free version (this was zmodem).
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