On Sep 2, 2010, at 12:34 AM, David Forsythe wrote: > Separating ports and packages is silly, because they need to coexist. > Like gcooper pointed out, ports should be using the pkg tools to build > and install packages.
I've been impressed with how MacPorts handles this. If I understand correctly, you can specify a package you want and the options you want with it and the system will download a pre-built package with those options (if one exists) or pull the source and build the port, all transparently. Even better, the central repository sees all of these requests, so can prioritize which option sets are most popular. Tim _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
