Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:37:37 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael Beattie" <mbeattie@slashmail.org> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Ports and Packages Message-ID: <50022.63.73.213.5.1102973857.squirrel@63.73.213.5>
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How well do ports and packages interact? Like if I were to install a package and it goes and downloads all the dependencies that it needs, would it get the packages for dependencies that I previously installed via "make install" in the ports tree? And vice versa? Or is it smart enough to know that it's already installed via the other system? How does it do that? Is there a command or a file or somewhere that I can see a list of all ports and packages installed and maybe how they were put there? I mean pkg_info -a can do that for packages, but what about ports? Or does the port system download, compile, and then create and install a package from source whereas the other system just downloads the same package already compiled? I am just really curious as to how the two seemingly different systems interact with each other. Thanks
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