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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NCSA httpd for FreeBSD?
Date: 28 Nov 1995 22:16:55 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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jsw@gonix (Jack Winslade) writes:

> : I think nobody made a port for it.
> 
> Port ??
> 
> I've installed it on two machines using various FBSD versions.  Just 
> unpacked the archive, configured, and did a 'make'.

You don't understand the "FreeBSD ports" conception.  It's not a
question of whether you need to tweak the sources or not, it's just a
matter of convenience.  Ease of installation.  I wouldn't run half of
the "ports" i'm using if i had to compile/install them manually, where
installing a "port" makes it that easy (and orthogonal).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)