From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 13 19:22:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2502E14CFF for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 19:22:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from a.genkin@utoronto.ca) Received: from main.wgaf.net (HSE-TOR-ppp22822.sympatico.ca [209.226.71.112]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA02522 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 22:24:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from antipode by main.wgaf.net with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 11bbdH-0000qH-00; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 23:32:47 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Ports system *rocks* (was: CVSup conceptual question) References: <871zazvtou.fsf@main.wgaf.net> <87g0zevk9o.fsf@main.wgaf.net> X-Home-Page: http://wgaf.dyndns.org Organization: Wgaf From: Arcady Genkin Date: 13 Oct 1999 23:32:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: Arcady Genkin's message of "Wed, 13 Oct 1999 20:49:39 -0400" Message-ID: <871zayvcps.fsf_-_@main.wgaf.net> Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) XEmacs/21.1 (Biscayne) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm *very* impressed with the way ports stuff is organized. What a wonderful organization, makes much more sense than Linux's package systems. Takes strain off FreeBSD's ftp servers, too, because the packages get downloaded from their own home sites... The FAQ in section 4.6 of the handbook answered most of my questions. However, here goes another one: Q: How do I find out what other ports does a port depend on? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin http://wgaf.dyndns.org "You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war -- a war for your opinions. And if your opinion is defeated, your honesty should still cry triumph over that!" (F. Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message