From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 16:10: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F51C37B405 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 16:09:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA21773; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 16:09:49 -0800 Message-ID: <3C855E4B.1000405@owt.com> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 16:09:47 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" Cc: mattmobile , Justin L Boss , 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 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. The kicker here is that after an upgrade a port may take a week for its package to get updated. If something in a port is bothering you and they fix it, the pkg_add from the network won't work because the tarball may not be there for awhile. A make install is still faster for really current stuff. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message