5 Jan
2007
5 Jan
'07
11:44 p.m.
On 1/5/07, Luke -Jr luke@dashjr.org wrote:
On Friday 05 January 2007 13:44, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
Source packages, and instructions on how to tune and rebuild them, are available for all of the binary distros I know of.
But it's bad practise to install from source on a binary OS.
Why bad practice? Isn't that what ports for on *BSDs is for? Since the *BSDs don't have the power nor the will to compile all those ports into packages specially on ports that a small select group use.