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Date:      15 Oct 2001 08:27:17 -0700
From:      swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Erik Sabowski <airyk@sdf.lonestar.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports vs. packages
Message-ID:  <o4elo4nctm.lo4@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20011014173546.A1244@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <Pine.NEB.4.33.0110150009110.7734-100000@sdf.lonestar.org> <20011014173546.A1244@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:

> If you want to enable optional settings in the port, you have no
> choice.  If you insist on adding local CFLAGS customizations, you have
> no choice.  Otherwise the only real benefit to using ports is the warm
> fuzzy you get from having compiled the software on your own machine.

I thought that another (small) benefit was that the programs would be
compiled for your Athlon or Pentium or 486 instead of for a 386.

Ports give that benefit without changing CFLAGS, right?  IIRC, the only
thing the beginners docs (handbook?) suggested for CFLAGS is "-O -pipe".

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