Re: newbie pkg question

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:57:50PM -0400, John wrote:
> The make fetch-list | sh, make, and make install is all done automatically
> if you just type make install.

Thats not really true; make fetch-list | sh will fetch all the source tar
files at a time, keeping your network connection busy; this is important
for people with dialup connections, else you'll pay for N timeout periods
instead of just one.

(But I agree that make install can be used without calling make first.)

Regards,
        -is