From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 13:27: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tninet.se (lennier.tninet.se [195.100.94.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0EC637B419 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 13:27:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from cs.umu.se (h12n1c1o1023.bredband.skanova.com [213.64.164.12]) by lennier.tninet.se (BMR ErlangTM/OTP 3.0) with ESMTP id 510153.363620.1015.0s2566884lennier ; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 22:27:00 +0100 Message-ID: <3C853824.F22A135A@cs.umu.se> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 22:27:00 +0100 From: Paul Everlund X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: sv,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin L Boss Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Port Colection References: <3C8537E3.6010703@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Justin L Boss wrote: > > Why do most people use the port collection instead of the package > collection? I only use the PC if I cant find a pkg. The pkg takes > considerable less time and space, So why use the port unless you > have to. In the ports collection you're able to set various configuration options before compiling. That way you can "tweak" the code so the binary is capable of and can do just the things you want it to, no more and no less. With a package someone else has done the configuration, and hence you have to live with it if installing a package. /Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message