Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 19:14:10 -0500 From: "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Ports vs. Packages Message-ID: <017f01c365e6$d0a1bd50$04fea8c0@moe> In-Reply-To: <200308181651.48433.mwoodson@sricrm.com>
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> Packages are nice for the speed you can install them with, > but can be much > harder to deal with the dependencies unless you use something like > portupgrade (which is much more useful after you've got what you want > installed and want to keep it all up to date). Well, that begs the question, how about installing what I want from packages and then using portupgrade to keep it up2date?
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