From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 30 15:18:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87EF937B41A for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:18:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Sat, 30 Mar 2002 17:15:29 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 95097BA05; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 17:15:00 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Mike Meyer Subject: Re: Packages and Ports [pkg vs portupgrade?] Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 17:15:00 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: Peter Leftwich , Jonathan Arnold , Zach Barnett , FreeBSD Questions References: <20020329204644.V81735-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <20020330135112.AA22EBA05@i8k.babbleon.org> <15526.2692.417612.726821@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <15526.2692.417612.726821@guru.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020330221500.95097BA05@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 30 March 2002 01:57 pm, Mike Meyer wrote: | In <20020330135112.AA22EBA05@i8k.babbleon.org>, Brian T.Schellenberger typed: | > The only reason I can think of to do things the "traditional" Unix way is | > if the port isn't getting a recent enough version of the software or is | > somehow broken. | | How about if you want to know how to install the software in question | on a non-FreeBSD machine? Ummm . . . did you get off at the wrong universe? Well, the original question was about packages and ports. And this *is* a FreeBSD mailing list. I think a context was implied here. Besides, don't think that packages would work very well on a non-FreeBSD machine, either. | I'd also add wanting a different | configuration than any you can get with the port, as it's not clear | that that qualifies as "somehow broken". I don't think you read my original mail very carefully. I was *discussing* how to use ports to get a different configuration than you can install with a port. -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message