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Originally Posted by sparky
The whole Gnome2 desktop for example.... the system's just installed gnome-base and now is doing Nautilus.
I never had Gnome installed previously??
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Sounds like NetBSD changed some dependencies recently, perhaps.
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Originally Posted by sparky
I always thought that using "source packages" was the best as these were "ports" but I maybe confusing between Free/OpenBSD though. Since with "ports" one can configure directly to what one needs in terms of package support etc.... rather then a pre-built binary which has 'everything' in it.
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On OpenBSD (I can't comment on FreeBSD) the only distinction between ports and packages is that ports are used to build packages and then the package is installed. So the real distinction is "OpenBSD project" packages, or "locally built" packages built from a local copy of ports.
Whether you build by port and install the resulting package or install the package directly, there's no real difference unless you tweak the port's Makefile for custom options.