On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 12:35:37PM -0400, Joseph C. Bender wrote: > Ryan Corder wrote: > >On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 21:53 -0700, Edward Ray wrote: > >> It has been awhile since I used ports, and have not kept up on the latest > >>OpenBSD stuff. What and where are packages? > > > >everything that is in ports, just compiled for you already. > > > This is not entirely true. > > There are things in ports that are not in packages on the mirrors. > CDs, maybe, but not on the FTP mirrors.
Most of those aren't on the CDs either; it's a licensing issue, not a space issue. Joachim