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Subject: Re: Packages and Ports [pkg vs portupgrade?]
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On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote:
> PL| Remember, these are a cookie-cutter one-size-fits-all mold, so you may wish to instead manually ftp a package's directory (or tarball which is a *.tgz or *.tar.gz file) to your box, peruse the contents and check out the security etc then manually do a "make."
> Why on earth would you do that??

Do what?

> If you want it built for your box, even if you want to customize it yourself, you might as well start out with port.  That'll still get you all the source code and you can still tweak, patch and twiddle to your heart's content--but you get to start out with something you know works (for somebody at least) on FreeBSD.

What does it mean to "start out with port?"  Just curious, thanks,

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