From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 13:51: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp018.mail.yahoo.com (smtp018.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED19F37B43A for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 13:50:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from jlboss (AUTH plain) at wks-94-207-167.kscable.com (HELO yahoo.com) (jlboss@24.94.207.167) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Mar 2002 21:50:43 -0000 Message-ID: <3C853E7E.8000201@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 15:54:06 -0600 From: Justin L Boss User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" Cc: mattmobile , FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Port Colection References: <3C8537E3.6010703@yahoo.com> <002501c1c48e$fcfddbe0$6501a8c0@fwoom> <20020305214342.0784ABA03@i8k.babbleon.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed 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 no i'm talking doing a pkg_add -r mc or a pkg_add -r samba but matt has a good point about the instruction set, do you have to edit the port or can it tell what set to use (486, 586, 686)? Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > On Tuesday 05 March 2002 04:44 pm, mattmobile 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. >>> >>it also means that you compile against the downloaded libs >> >>I've had packages fail when compiling succeeds (version clashes being the >>culprit). >> >>I have default optimizations and cpu target set for the compiler, we don't >>want everything targetted at the 486 instruction set! >> > > Not to mention that with a broadband connection it's usually easier and about > as fast to go to the port directory and "make install" as it for me to hunt > up my CD for the package. > > I guess I could learn to pkg_add over the network, though. > > >>Matt >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > _________________________________________________________ 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