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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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I have no idea on this one... maybe post a question on one of the NBSD mailing lists?
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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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Yes, if one needs to "tweak" the package, or to turn an option "on" (which isn't by default) then one's got to go with source packages. Otherwise, and I agree with OpenBSD-way here, I just use binary packages. Much faster and avoid unneeded compilation.
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