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Date:      Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:49:50 +0100
From:      RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fwd: package vs ports question
Message-ID:  <200603271649.56334.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
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On Monday 27 March 2006 14:20, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> make package will actually make the package and install it for you, you
> dont need to do a pkg_add after that (yes, a bit counter-intuitive, but
> really handy)

Make package creates a package out of an installed port (it will install the 
port first, if neccessary). It doesn't install the package - there would be 
no point.



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