Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:59:57 -0500 From: "Jonathan Arnold" <jdarnold@buddydog.org> To: "Zach Barnett" <zpb@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Packages and Ports Message-ID: <200203291659570651.10548307@mail.attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <F229O4OPXok84FTA7OI0000cd53@hotmail.com> References: <F229O4OPXok84FTA7OI0000cd53@hotmail.com>
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>I'm new to Freebsd, and I've been trying to learn about packages and
>ports.
Packages are basically pre-built and nicely packaged ports. They're=
normally
a lot easier to install, and much smaller. But, like the kernel, it is=
built
for the widest range of computers, and thus may not be tuned to your=
computer.
It is also easier to keep up to date with ports, by using cvsup, while it
does't seem to be as easy to keep up to date with packages. You have a lot
of packages on your CDROMs, but as I found out in my recent move to=
FreeBSD,
no where does it tell you which packages do you have, and on what CD are
they.
--
Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org)
Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog:
http://jdarnold.tzo.com/FreeBSD
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