From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 30 11:48:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05009 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:48:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hp9000.chc-chimes.com (hp9000.chc-chimes.com [206.67.97.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04988 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:48:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost by hp9000.chc-chimes.com with SMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA292064981; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 14:43:01 -0500 Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 14:43:01 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola To: nunnari Cc: stable Subject: Re: packages vs ports ?? In-Reply-To: <3662A039.227E53CB@agie.ch> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, nunnari wrote: > After reading a bit of doc, I'm still not sure I understand what > the difference between ports and packages is. > > May it be that packages are executables while ports are still > to be built? Yes. Packages are just ports that have been pre-built and placed in a central place. Ports contain the Makefile and patches required to build the package or port. Some ports can't be made into packages (copyright, commercial, crypto, etc) and a lot of people just feel better building their own binaries for optimization reasons, etc, etc.. > Also which is the best forum for questions? I don't mean to > annoy anybody by posting here... freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message