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[Luke-Jr]

On Friday 05 January 2007 23:44, djgoku wrote:
> On 1/5/07, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> > On Friday 05 January 2007 13:44, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> > > Source packages, and instructions on how to tune and rebuild them, are
> > > available for all of the binary distros I know of.
> >
> > But it's bad practise to install from source on a binary OS.
>
> Why bad practice? Isn't that what ports for on *BSDs is for? Since the
> *BSDs don't have the power nor the will to compile all those ports
> into packages specially on ports that a small select group use.

*BSD aren't binary OS, IIRC