Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:04:06 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Power Jessie! <jessie@power-jessie.net> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Faisal Gillani <fasi_74@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: ports information & removal Message-ID: <XFMail.010316090406.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <013a01c0ae6b$71e460e0$0bd5fcd8@techasia.com.ph>
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On 16-Mar-01 Power Jessie! wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Faisal Gillani" <fasi_74@yahoo.com> > To: "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 11:03 AM > Subject: ports information & removal > > >> 1 How can we see which ports are install in our system ? > > pkg_info > >> 2 how can we remove selected ? > > pkg_delete > >> 3 what does the install program show if it encounter any dependicies > problem? > > error message(s), i guess > >> 4 why we call these ports why not pakages like other os ? > > why call them 'packages' if we can call them 'ports'? And they are not exactky the same thing either. Packages are precompiled binaries, ports are merely (patched) source. AFAIK. >> >> hope you answer them all >> thanks >> >> > > yah.. > > Cheers! > > jessie >> >> >> _________________________________________________________ >> Do You Yahoo!? >> Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com >> >> >> 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 ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.3-BETA ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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