From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 19 11:43:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.lee.net (trinity.lee.net [208.229.121.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 205F315354 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:43:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from awells@journalstar.com) Received: from journalstar.com (leepcB-039.sub-b.lee.net [208.205.125.39]) by trinity.lee.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA03369; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 13:42:44 -0600 Message-ID: <388614B8.277E685@journalstar.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 13:47:04 -0600 From: Tony Wells X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Rothenberg Cc: 8 BSD Qs Subject: Re: Newbie Q: Packages or Ports? References: <003b01bf62b0$2c4eef80$3301a8c0@baffle.ias.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Rothenberg wrote: > > 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? > Packages are pre-compiled, ports are not. (They're source code) Packages are faster and easier to install, but seem to lag a bit behind ports for changes. > Enjoy! > > -Michael > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message