From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 11 9: 0:55 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 09:00:53 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harp.wrdp.com (harp.dublin.wrdp.net [212.147.130.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB49F37B400 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:00:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from JRAFTERY (jraftery.dublin.wrdp.net [172.16.4.52]) by harp.wrdp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E25C10AC5; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:00:34 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <00a901c06393$e8e68e20$340410ac@JRAFTERY> From: "James Raftery" To: "cam (Camille HUOT)" , References: <20001211143627.2d3eb9a4.cam@bsdfr.org> Subject: Re: packages rather than ports Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:00:48 -0000 Organization: Worldport Communications Inc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "cam (Camille HUOT)" To: Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 1:36 PM Subject: packages rather than ports > due that the package format is faster to download/install > that the port format (source), does exist a x11-frontend to manage > FreeBSD packages ? Hi, Running /stand/sysinstall gives a very useable interface to installing packages. james To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message