From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 7 1:15:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4219937B403 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 01:15:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 47135 invoked by uid 100); 7 Oct 2001 08:15:16 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15296.3860.722354.662322@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 03:15:16 -0500 To: "Edward Gess" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new packages and ports In-Reply-To: <3753162@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Edward Gess types: > But, how you know, all these programs are installed as the base system, > so how I could update them, should I simply replace them by newer > ones??? If you need to use those, you should install the ports, not replace the versions in the base system. Unlike other Unix-like systems, FreeBSD is built, tested and provided as a complete system, not a collection of packages running on top of a kernel from a bunch of different development groups. The downside of this, as you've noticed, is that the versions of contributed software in the base system tend to lag behind the version from the developers. The upside, which you apparently also noticed, is that the base system is more stable and easier to manage than things built using the alternative system. Updating perl seems to work ok, but people have reported bad things happening when compiling the system with gcc 3.0. > And one more, what do you think about my english? I guess you've noticed > that I am not from England or America? I am from Lithuania, but I am not > Lithuanian, I am German, I only live here... Since you ask, I think it's good. Not perfect, but better than some who speak english as a first language. More importantly, it was no problem understanding the question. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message