From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 29 14: 0:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA98837B419 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 13:59:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from max ([24.61.57.241]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020329215956.UEIV2928.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@max>; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 21:59:56 +0000 Message-ID: <200203291659570651.10548307@mail.attbi.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:59:57 -0500 Reply-To: jdarnold@buddydog.org From: "Jonathan Arnold" To: "Zach Barnett" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Packages and Ports Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message