Ports & Pkg Mgr

Wade neroz at ii.net
Sun Sep 28 10:21:29 PDT 2003


James Frazer wrote:
Wade wrote:

Why are ports going to be used rather than an actual package 
management system?


The two could work very well together if implimented correctly.  They 
solve two different problems.  I'm not sure if anyone ever suggested to 
choose one over the other.

-James

Package Management Systems can be used for both, as long as the result 
of the source compile is packaged + installed at the end rather than 
dumped into the filesystem.






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