Date: 30 Nov 2001 14:10:43 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Darren Crotchett <darren@crotchett.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Tsalicoglou, Isaak" <tisaak@student.ethz.ch> Subject: Re: *NIX Selection Message-ID: <britbrrjto.tbr@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20011130181148.C34D837B419@hub.freebsd.org> References: <786CB48E65ABC74CA1E25577B096357F3FE7F6@EXSTUD2.d.ethz.ch> <20011130181148.C34D837B419@hub.freebsd.org>
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Darren Crotchett <darren@crotchett.com> writes: > ... I'm still > trying to figure out the difference between the ports and the packages In short, a package is a pre-built, pre-compiled port; a binary port. They both install binaries to the same places and those get entered into the same database (/var/db/pkg/) and may be manipulated with the same "pkg" utilities. The ports allow you to customize the build process too. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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