From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 30 06:21:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA01157 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 06:21:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cs.Technion.AC.IL (csa.cs.technion.ac.il [132.68.32.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA01141 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 06:20:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nadav@csa.cs.technion.ac.il) Received: from csd.csa (csd [132.68.32.8]) by cs.Technion.AC.IL (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id PAA16145; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:48:30 +0200 (IST) Received: from localhost by csd.csa (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA23935; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:48:26 +0200 Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:48:26 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron X-Sender: nadav@csd To: nunnari cc: stable Subject: Re: packages vs ports ?? In-Reply-To: <3662A039.227E53CB@agie.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, nunnari wrote: > Thanks to all who answered my previous post on g++ > > After reading a bit of doc, I'm still not sure I understand what > the difference between ports and packages is. > > May it be that packages are executables while ports are still > to be built? Correct. > > Also which is the best forum for questions? I don't mean to > annoy anybody by posting here... questions@freebsd.org You should also go through the Handbook/FAQ/mailing list archives before posting to questions. Most of these questions have been answered before, and these answers are in the archives of the questions mailing list. See: http://www.freebsd.org/search.html > > Best regards. > > Roberto Nunnari > WWW : http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/noonlights/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > Nadav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message