Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:54:33 -0800 (PST) From: Philip Hallstrom <philip.hallstrom@cendantsoft.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Ports vs. Manually compiling... Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9812101149470.13323-100000@iris>
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Hi - I don't want to start any wars, but I haven't been able to find the information I'm looking for. Here's my situation: I come from a Solaris background and therefore am very wary of ports/packages/etc. since they don't let you tweak all the options, etc. I do like the notion of ports though since it seems to give you a bit more flexibility, someone's done the necessary hacking to get it to work, and they are easy to remove later. However - it doesn't seem like there is any way to make all the little tweaks (say for instance, editing config.h for tcsh to set keybindings to emacs, rather than vi). It also doesn't seem like there is a way to configure where you want everything to be installed. I haven't delved too far into it, and I'm pretty new to FreeBSD so maybe I'm just missing it... Any one have any insights? (If I get a lot of responses, I'll post them in a summary) Thanks! -- Philip Hallstrom philip.hallstrom@cendantsoft.com 425.649.9800 x5738 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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