[nycbug-talk] noob questions

[Tilly]

Hey

Yea i see a lot of similiarities between ports and ports. But with portage
all i needed to do was emerge (package name) with out going into the
directory was located and i could do emerge sync which will update portage.
With ports i need to go into the directory where the port is actually
located and in some cases i need to get more ports to solve the dependency
because the port is not on the machine. It is kind of annoying sometimes.

Tilly
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <pete at nomadlogic.org>
To: "Tilly" <tilly at serversunited.com>
Cc: <talk at lists.nycbug.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] noob questions


> 
> > Hey
> >
> > Is their something like apt, emerge, for ports.
> 
> my understanding of emerge and gentoo's portage system was to bring a
> ports like system to GNU/Linux.  so it's likely most of the behaviour you
> are used to from portage is avail in ports.  if you want a more apt like
> system you want to read the man page for pkg_add.
> 
> hope this get's you pointed in the right direction.
> 
> -pete
> 
> 
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