Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 16:00:08 -0600 (MDT) From: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org> To: "Konstantin 'Kosta' Welke" <damaker@fillibach.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: General issues with the ports system Message-ID: <200407052200.i65M0818084017@chilled.skew.org> In-Reply-To: <opsaooxejvdvpa9u@auth.smtp.kundenserver.de> "from Konstantin 'Kosta' Welke at Jul 5, 2004 11:35:28 pm"
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Konstantin 'Kosta' Welke wrote: > b) Is it possible to use & install ports without having a ports tree? http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ "For most ports, a precompiled package also exists, saving the user the work of having to compile anything at all. Each port['s entry on the web site] contains a link to its corresponding package [if available] and you may either simply download that file and then run the pkg_add command on it or you can simply grab the link location and hand it straight to pkg_add since it's capable of accepting FTP URLs as well as filenames."
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