Monday, April 18, 2022

Re: Auto layout for disk partitions - a new user's perspective

As a long time OpenBSD user I install from packages but also build from ports. There is a usage case for both, but realize building packages is not a "standard" system.

Twenty years ago building packages from ports was the norm, but not today.

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diana

On April 18, 2022 9:35:27 AM MDT, Thomas Frohwein <tfrohwein@fastmail.com> wrote:
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>I think it might be worth repeating that packages are the recommended
>way to use third-party software. And that's also a great justification
>why there is no /usr/ports partition on a default install.
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>Unless you are doing ports development work, you shouldn't need the
>ports tree.

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