From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 7 02:26:10 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 446DD16A41F for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 02:26:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from rosebud.otenet.gr (rosebud.otenet.gr [195.170.0.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7658B43D45 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 02:26:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a137.otenet.gr [212.205.215.137]) by rosebud.otenet.gr (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-1) with ESMTP id j872Q5Tm006473; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 05:26:06 +0300 Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j872Q3Fu081749; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 05:26:03 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j872Q2pM081748; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 05:26:02 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 05:26:02 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Derrill Guilbert Message-ID: <20050907022602.GA81702@gothmog.gr> References: <431DE851.6020905@gmail.com> <20050906191303.GA69719@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <431E1CD9.2050605@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <431E1CD9.2050605@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compiling for the first time (more or less) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 02:26:10 -0000 On 2005-09-06 15:48, Derrill Guilbert wrote: > So, my next question is, how does one know that the wonderful and > brilliant FreeBSD port squad already took care of things like this? The ports(7) manpage is a good start and it also includes a link to the relevant Handbook section. You can get a fair amount of information about the Ports (what they are, how it all works, etc.) by running: % man 7 ports > Am I just going to have to ask more stupid questions like this, until > I get a better feel for things? Well, there's an old saying that no question is a stupid question. You can speed things up a lot though by looking for "keywords" that match what you want to do in the archives of this list. Most of the questions one finds himself wanting to ask when they start working with FreeBSD have already been answered; repeatedly too :) - Giorgos