Items exist in ports, but not as packages.

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 10:50:12AM +0000, Paul Richards wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been trying to install a few packages using 'pkg_add -r' but I
> have found that there are a few which only exist as ports, and not
> packages.  The main one which I am missing is 'vtk-tcl'.
> 
> Is it generally the case that the precompiled packages are not always
> available when the ports are?  According to freshports.org I should be
> able to use 'pkg_add -r' for vtk-tcl.

http://pointyhat.freebsd.org shows that this port is currently broken.

Kris
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