I am new to BSD, so bear with me.
I recently installed FreeBSD and attempted to use "ports" to compile gnome2. After 3 days of going through prompts and compiling, I gave up and decided to download the package using pkg_add.
Is it possible to use pkg_add to download all the dependencies and then compile the specific applications that I want to customize after all the other programs are "installed"? For example if I wanted different options than the default binary of gnome2?
I guess my question is a simple do ports and packages play nice together? Or are they more like oil and water?
Thanks in advance for any help.
I recently installed FreeBSD and attempted to use "ports" to compile gnome2. After 3 days of going through prompts and compiling, I gave up and decided to download the package using pkg_add.
Is it possible to use pkg_add to download all the dependencies and then compile the specific applications that I want to customize after all the other programs are "installed"? For example if I wanted different options than the default binary of gnome2?
I guess my question is a simple do ports and packages play nice together? Or are they more like oil and water?
Thanks in advance for any help.