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17th September 2011
shep
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pacman is fine, but what does it provide that pkg_add doesn't?
Quote:
# pacman -Syu
essentially gets you to the same place as
1) Downloading and Booting /bsd.rd to do an update
2) sysmerge (recently in and out of /bsd.rd)
3) pkg_add -ui
with a single command.
Last edited by shep; 17th September 2011 at
03:59 AM
. Reason: restated for clarity
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