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From: Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com>
To: Dale Morris <dlm@well.com>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
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On Friday 29 March 2002 06:04 am, Dale Morris wrote:
> I'm curious if there's any difference between the 'quality' of the
> install of a port package or using the pkg_add command?

There is no "quality difference".

I prefer ports for two reasons, however. First, I can build the ports 
optimized for my machine, as opposed to packages which are built for generic 
i386 machines. Second, I can customize the port to include extra options.

> I've noticed a couple of times that building a program from the ports
> has crashed my machine, whereas pkg_add seems to go smoothly.

I suspect that this has to do with the build process and not the port itself. 
If you have  a reasonable make.conf, and enough room to build, any crashes 
while building a port should be submitted as a bug.

David

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