From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 27 04:10:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7258816A401 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 04:10:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from smtpout.eastlink.ca (smtpout.eastlink.ca [24.222.0.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE7043D46 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 04:10:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from ip04.eastlink.ca ([24.222.10.20]) by mta01.eastlink.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)) with ESMTP id <0IWR00KYXQ9E6FO0@mta01.eastlink.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:10:26 -0400 (AST) Received: from blk-224-199-230.eastlink.ca (HELO [192.168.0.103]) ([24.224.199.230]) by ip04.eastlink.ca with ESMTP; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:10:32 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:09:37 -0400 From: Duane Whitty In-reply-to: <1cac28080603262002g3b76041ap28c8dc4cb7e97e0a@mail.gmail.com> To: Huy Ton That Message-id: <44276581.2060505@greenmeadow.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAA+k= References: <1cac28080603262002g3b76041ap28c8dc4cb7e97e0a@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060309) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: package vs ports question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 04:10:33 -0000 Huy Ton That wrote: > I am curious, the key different between packages and ports are that packages > are precompiled and ports are not? Am I erroneous in this statement? I'm a > little confused as I have been always using make install clean from the > ports and don't see the difference... Has anyone else had the same > question? > > -Lee > _________________ > Hi, Your best bet is to read the handbook section on packages and ports. To answer your question though, yes packages are pre-built and ports need to be compiled, linked, etc from sources. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html --Duane