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Date:      Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:47:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dinesh Nadarajah <dinesh_list@sbcglobal.net>
To:        Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Howto find packages
Message-ID:  <20031016214759.6173.qmail@web80411.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031016193604.GA5147@dds.nl>

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The prblem is that mozilla takes a heck of a long time to compile on my
machine and all I want to do is browse the web. :) Oh well. :)

-D

--- Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 09:55:49AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
> > I guess what FreeBSD needs is a good port of the apt system Should
> not
> > be difficult. It can let pkg_xxx do all the installing etc. Would
> be
> > cool if one existed :)
> > 
> Packages should work normaly, but can give some trouble afther you
> update. There is a port called portupgrade which has the same goal as
> the Debian apt system. You are better of using this if you like to
> upgrade you installed packages. Packages however can stil be a
> problem.
> Debian handels packages better.
> 
> Its likly that using packages isn't that high on the agenda since
> installing application by compiling isn't that hard to do with the
> ports
> system.
> 
> i.e.    cd /usr/port/www/mozilla; make install && make clean
> or      portinstall www/mozilla
> 
> -- 
> Alex
> 
> Articles based on solutions that I use:
> http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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