From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jan 6 7:15:25 2001 From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 6 07:15:23 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from whizkidtech.net (r6.bfm.org [216.127.220.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B362537B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 07:15:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from adam@localhost) by whizkidtech.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id JAA00261; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 09:14:07 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from adam) Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 09:13:31 -0600 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" To: GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Ports Collection... Message-ID: <20010106091331.A241@whizkidtech.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com on Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 09:22:48PM -0500 Organization: Whiz Kid Technomagic X-URL: http://www.whizkidtech.net/ X-Castle: http://www.redprince.net/ X-Special-Effects: http://www.FilmSFX.com/ X-Operating-System: FreeBSD whizkidtech.net 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 09:22:48PM -0500, GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com wrote: >install the ports collection, i know that the most popular way is off the >internet with, "make install" No, the most popular way is to install only the ports you need, when you need them, by changing to the appropriate port directory and typing "make install clean" (or "make install" if for some reason you want to keep all the source code). There is very little point in installing the entire port collection, certainly not all at once, and definitely not from the Internet! Not only would it take forever (weeks, perhaps), it would install many ports that do the same thing as some other ports. It would also install many of the same ports in Chinese, Japanese, German, Russian, etc. Do you really need all that? Cheers, Adam -- Perfection is for neurotics To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message