[Gllug] Ports

[Ian Northeast]

Bruce Richardson wrote:

> The point about about the ports collection for FreeBSD (and OpenBSD
> now) is that it is *the* packaging tool - the *only* packaging tool.
> This means that there's only one set of hurdles to jump through to to
> port something to FreeBSD - which is a reflection of the fact that there
> only is one FreeBSD "distribution" and not of the technical merits of
> the ports collection.

What about pkg_add etc.? This has caused me some confusion with FreeBSD
(at which I am admittedly a novice). I have decided to use ports
exclusively now but I got into a bit of a knot with my first
installation with this.

Regards, Ian

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