From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 30 10:57:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DEC3737B41D for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 10:57:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 7607 invoked by uid 100); 30 Mar 2002 18:57:09 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15526.2692.417612.726821@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 12:57:08 -0600 To: Brian T.Schellenberger Cc: Peter Leftwich , Jonathan Arnold , Zach Barnett , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Packages and Ports [pkg vs portupgrade?] In-Reply-To: <20020330135112.AA22EBA05@i8k.babbleon.org> References: <20020329204644.V81735-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <20020330135112.AA22EBA05@i8k.babbleon.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.49 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) 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 In <20020330135112.AA22EBA05@i8k.babbleon.org>, Brian T.Schellenberger typed: > The only reason I can think of to do things the "traditional" Unix way is if > the port isn't getting a recent enough version of the software or is somehow > broken. How about if you want to know how to install the software in question on a non-FreeBSD machine? I'd also add wanting a different configuration than any you can get with the port, as it's not clear that that qualifies as "somehow broken". 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