From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 10:58:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A1CF37B502 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:58:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ct-hartford-us644.javanet.com ([209.150.35.49]) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #2) id 13j3fL-0004CZ-00; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:58:16 -0400 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20001010080910.A11202@linux.rainbow> References: ; from media@mail1.nai.net on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:43:00PM -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: igorr@crosswinds.net From: media@ct1.nai.net Subject: Re: common packages not working Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:58:16 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 8:09 AM +0400 10/10/00, Igor Roboul wrote: > >I think ports is better. Others may think packages are better. Only one >thing I can say, when I have used (and on some PC's still use) various >Linux distros, my /usr/local grows bigger and bigger just because I >don't like RPMS/SRPMS dpkg slp and Slackware .tgz so I used source. >But with excelent ports system in FreeBSD sources work even better :-) Thanx :) I think my problem is that I need X installed to run ghostscript. Actually, I wanted ghostscript so I could print the documentation needed to figure how to get Xfree86 up and running. I seem to be having lots of chicken and egg problems -- even the README for lynx is in html!! >Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", >Sochi, Russia >http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message