From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 19 11: 3:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nautilus.shore.net (nautilus.shore.net [207.244.124.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 383FA1520D for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:03:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rothenberg@automationonline.com) Received: from intelligent.subnet.shore.net (baffle) [209.58.134.62] by nautilus.shore.net with smtp (Exim) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org id 12B0O2-0000gt-00; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:03:22 -0500 Message-ID: <003b01bf62b0$2c4eef80$3301a8c0@baffle.ias.com> Reply-To: "Michael Rothenberg" From: "Michael Rothenberg" To: "8 BSD Qs" Subject: Newbie Q: Packages or Ports? Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:05:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I read about a problem going through packages and /stand/sysinstall and the reply was go try it through the ports collection. So far I have installed 2 things from ports and not a thing from packages.... what is the difference between them? Is one better then the other? Enjoy! -Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message