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From: cam (Camille HUOT) <cam@bsdfr.org>
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Subject: packages rather than ports
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due that the package format is faster to download/install
that the port format (source), does exist a x11-frontend to manage
FreeBSD packages ?

for example if I want to install latex via the ports, I have to download
252352345 MB of source code, then compile it. If I use package, it takes
only a few.

any suggestions/idea ?

cam


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