Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

"Rob Lytle" <jan6146 at gmail.com> writes:
> i strongly disagree with using ports for huge packages.  I don't have the
> time to waste compiling.  Plus, you are presented with numerous nag screens
> so you have to babysit the whole process.

This is why there are precompiled packages on ftp.freebsd.org which you
can install with 'pkg_add -r'.  You can install them from any FTP
mirror, actually; just point PACKAGEROOT at the mirror:

export PACKAGEROOT=ftp://ftp.no.freebsd.org

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no