From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 30 16: 4:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from control.colossus.dynip.com (226-193.adsl2.avtel.net [207.71.226.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87F1314EF4 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:04:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dburr@control.colossus.dynip.com) Received: (from dburr@localhost) by control.colossus.dynip.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id QAA42579; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:04:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dburr) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <000a01bec33a$0cfd5100$23eba6cb@p233> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:04:43 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Computer Help From: Donald Burr To: FRiGHT Subject: RE: FreeBSD 3.2 packages directory Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (actually, it was on 30-Jun-99), the great prophet FRiGHT once wrote: > I've been downloading FreeBSD 3.2, and have downloaded everything except > the files in /packages. This directory's contents are huge, and I'm just > wondering if I have to download it all to install FreeBSD? Short answer: No. Somewhat longer answer: The "packages" directory contains pre-compiled software "packages" for popular add-on software, such as Netscape, Apache (web server), etc. These are not necessary at install time, since you can always install them yourself later, either through the "ports" system in /usr/ports, or by downloading individual package files that you want and using "pkg_add" on them. --- Donald Burr -Member The FreeBSD Project| PGP: Your *NEW* WWW HomePage: http://more.at/dburr/ ICQ #16997506 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message