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--qcHopEYAB45HaUaB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:49:11AM -0500, Chris Winters wrote: > > Yeah. Gentoo's portage tried to make a better FreeBSD ports > > collection, missing the whole point of the latter entirely. >=20 > I'm unfamiliar with FreeBSD ports. How are they so different from Gentoo's > portage? Well, the FreeBSD ports collection basically gives you the means to rebuild the programs you want to *if* you want to, and then it gives the FreeBSD release engineers the means to fill the installation CD's with lots of - and here's a novel idea, at least to some aforementioned Linux distro maintainers, it would seem - *binary packages* built from those self-same ports :) It's a bit more than that, of course, but that's the basic idea - the CD's have binary packages, the FTP sites have binary packages (which are also updated between releases, of course), but if you want to, you can sync the ports tree daily and build and rebuild from source to your heart's desire. G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@xxxxxxx.xxx roam@xxxxx.xx roam@xxxxxxx.xxx PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 This sentence no verb. --qcHopEYAB45HaUaB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFByEut7Ri2jRYZRVMRAvfwAJ98q8fTW1FgvdK5YiDKNIOqnpJUYACcCADI xCkKepy82/q1UtKBJ6Jow9c= =0TWr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qcHopEYAB45HaUaB--There's stuff above here
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