Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 16:43:42 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "mattmobile" <mattmobile@proweb.co.uk>, "Justin L Boss" <jlboss@yahoo.com>, "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Port Colection Message-ID: <20020305214342.0784ABA03@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <002501c1c48e$fcfddbe0$6501a8c0@fwoom> References: <3C8537E3.6010703@yahoo.com> <002501c1c48e$fcfddbe0$6501a8c0@fwoom>
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On Tuesday 05 March 2002 04:44 pm, mattmobile wrote:
> > Why do most people use the port collection instead of the package
> > collection? I only use the PC if I cant find a pkg. The pkg takes
> > considerable less time and space, So why use the port unless you have to.
>
> it also means that you compile against the downloaded libs
>
> I've had packages fail when compiling succeeds (version clashes being the
> culprit).
>
> I have default optimizations and cpu target set for the compiler, we don't
> want everything targetted at the 486 instruction set!
Not to mention that with a broadband connection it's usually easier and about
as fast to go to the port directory and "make install" as it for me to hunt
up my CD for the package.
I guess I could learn to pkg_add over the network, though.
>
> Matt
>
>
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