Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:56:44 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, annonymejens+bsd@runbox.no Subject: Re: Compiling everything myself? Message-ID: <18879.36860.350101.832632@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <200903170807.n2H87ht9098814@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <E1LjNq9-0007w5-03@fenris.runbox.com> <87fxhcshir.fsf@kobe.laptop> <200903170807.n2H87ht9098814@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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Olivier Nicole writes: > > What I want to know is the following: Do I get the option of fetching > > sources and running through a guided compilation; or do I get binaries > > (like Debian) only? > > I'd say that installing from the source is part of the phylosophy > of FreeBSD. There are pre-compiled packages, but as I see them, > they are only designed to be bootstrap, not to be used on a long > term basis. While I strongly favor the "roll you own" approach, not every one has the time or patience to sit through building some of the larger applications like Java or KDE/GNOME or (worst of all) OpenOffice. In those limited cases, installing by package makes sense. Robert Huff
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