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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!agate!news.mindlink.net!uniserve!usenet From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 17 Nov 1995 06:57:41 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 24 Distribution: world Message-ID: <48hbp5$i3@atlas.uniserve.com> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <48aoee$j59@post.gsfc.nasa.gov> <30A9C704.5D0C6A5@FreeBSD.org> <DI37qp.Jyo@ritz.mordor.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc.sdf.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 In article <DI37qp.Jyo@ritz.mordor.com>, ritz@ritz.mordor.com says... > > >Note, my experience has been that a noticeable portion of the ports >are broken. The pine/pico and tcsh ports come to mind. pine/pico broken? That's surprising. I just pkg_add'ed that one yesterday, and it works fine. >This isn't really a complaint, just a point of information. Turns >out there were binaries available in the packages area. I just >prefer to build my own (when it's possible). pico/pine builds fine too. I've done this many times. >p.s. For future reference, where does one send a port? :) This could be the problem.... you don't know about the freebsd-ports list yet. Use majordomo@freebsd.org and on it. Tom PS. Chopped Newsgroups: down to appropiate groups.