Subject: Re: Package System?
To: Jeff Woolley <Jeff.R.Woolley-1@tc.umn.edu>
From: Dr. Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/27/1998 17:58:47
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Jeff Woolley wrote:

> Is the pkg_add command different than using the pkgsrc stuff, i.e., going 
> to the directory that the package is in (cd 
> /usr/pkgsrc/print/ghostscript5) and typing make. This downloaded other 
> packages/libs that where need for ghostscript. I don't think it was a 
> binary, since it was compiling it.

Kinda. pkg_add is for installing pre-compiled packages, whil epkgsrc is
for compiling them locally.

Take care,

Bill