From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 14 9:35:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles532.castles.com [208.214.165.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B980414DFE for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 09:35:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA02884; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 09:30:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199906141630.JAA02884@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Ipswitch Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question on ports system In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:27:53 EDT." <19990614102753.A25023@junior.apk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 09:30:34 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I really like the ports system, but there are times when it would be > easier to use a package. Has anyone thought about combining the ports > system with packages a bit? Not necessary, really. Try 'pkg_add -r ', eg. pkg_add -r emacs does what you think it should. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message