Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 15:59:43 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Chris Faehl <cfaehl@cs.unm.edu> Cc: Ted Spradley <tsprad@set.spradley.tmi.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: after the release ... Message-ID: <8345.890438383@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Mar 1998 16:47:23 MST." <E0yGBVn-0003mB-00@enterprise.cs.unm.edu>
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> The reason pkg_add is preferable is that make; make install is obtuse, and > provides no clue to uninitiated admins what's going on. pkg_add, however There's an even more important aspect to this that folks are missing - some folks don't have *room* for the prerequisite sources to patch, or they have similar shortcomings in CPU power or memory. A binary package simply splats itself into place with very few external dependencies or prerequisites by comparison. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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