From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 31 02:36:46 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63375106564A for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:36:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aimass@yabarana.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36E588FC0A for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:36:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iabz21 with SMTP id z21so530259iab.13 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:36:45 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.132.10 with SMTP id b10mr19462932ict.18.1320028604987; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:36:44 -0700 (PDT) Sender: aimass@yabarana.com Received: by 10.231.13.77 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:36:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:36:44 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: CsZtFdn03M4uJtgT673D5EpNz5I Message-ID: From: Alejandro Imass To: Zantgo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: The ports are really funcional? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:36:46 -0000 On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Zantgo wrote: > What happens is that I tried to install things on the ports, but almost n= o one serves me, I've only been able to install firefox, I tried also insta= ll KDE, GNOME and KFCE, but I have been many errors, commonly solocionables= , for example I had to modify "REFRESH" to "true", but also to get out othe= r errors, commonly have a solution, but is a great problem to have to spend= all his time fixing bugs. Please tell me if it is natural to every time I = download large modifying ports so, if so, then why say "functional"? > I've used FBSD since 6.2 and ports are almost always flawless. Many times it's the combination of configuration options (in make config) that may cause problems. For very large packages such as the graphics system, open or libre office etc. it's much better to use binary versions via pkg_add. It's a waste of time to compile these very large suites and most of the time you will get the config options wrong, and they take forever to compile. For things you want to tailor and optimize to your needs then use the ports system. FBSD is so cool that it doesn't matter if you install one way or the other and you can use almost all methods interchangeably. --=20 Alejandro Imass