From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 17 10:11:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA21194 for current-outgoing; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 10:11:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from hauki.clinet.fi (root@hauki.clinet.fi [194.100.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA21187 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 10:11:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from cantina.clinet.fi (root@cantina.clinet.fi [194.100.0.15]) by hauki.clinet.fi (8.7.3/8.6.4) with ESMTP id UAA28643; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 20:11:16 +0200 (EET) Received: (hsu@localhost) by cantina.clinet.fi (8.6.12/8.6.4) id UAA11713; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 20:10:25 +0200 Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 20:10:25 +0200 Message-Id: <199602171810.UAA11713@cantina.clinet.fi> From: Heikki Suonsivu To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-reply-to: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of 16 Feb 1996 09:56:16 +0200 Subject: Re: Hysterical Raisons Organization: Clinet Ltd, Espoo, Finland References: <431.824454576@time.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In article <431.824454576@time.cdrom.com> "Jordan K. Hubbard" 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). -- Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND, hsu@clinet.fi mobile +358-40-5519679 work +358-0-4375360 fax -4555276 home -8031121