Re: Install via ports...

2006-12-14 Thread RW
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:26:04 +0100 Bastiaan Welmers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can do "make fetch" to fetch the required package distfiles first, > or > "make fetch-recursive" to fetch all the required distfiles of all > packages required by this package. see "man ports" for other targets.

Re: Install via ports...

2006-12-13 Thread Robert Huff
Chad Gross writes: > >So what I am asking if is > anyone has > >test a Gnome, OpenOffice.org, or any other big installations > >via ports (say in a Pentium 4 2.8GHz HT with 512Mb RAM) can tell > >me the elapsed time ??? Just curious...thanks in advan

Re: Install via ports...

2006-12-13 Thread Chad Gross
On 12/13/06, Ne'Bahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi list, I've read the handbook for ports, basically (if I understand) ports are files that brings information (location, dependencies) to the system to compile a series of files (sources) to have the final piece of software. Very nice with the adv

Re: Install via ports...

2006-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 07:00:20PM -0500, Ne'Bahn wrote: > Hi list, I've read the handbook for ports, basically (if I understand) > ports are files that brings information (location, dependencies) to the > system to compile a series of files (sources) to have the final piece of > software. Very

Re: Install via ports...

2006-12-13 Thread Bastiaan Welmers
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 07:00:20PM -0500, Ne'Bahn wrote: > Hi list, I've read the handbook for ports, basically (if I understand) > ports are files that brings information (location, dependencies) to > the > system to compile a series of files (sources) to have the final piece > of > software. Very

Install via ports...

2006-12-13 Thread Ne'Bahn
Hi list, I've read the handbook for ports, basically (if I understand) ports are files that brings information (location, dependencies) to the system to compile a series of files (sources) to have the final piece of software. Very nice with the advantages that comes with this type of installatio