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Old 17th September 2011
shep shep is offline
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pacman is fine, but what does it provide that pkg_add doesn't?
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# 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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