ports vs packages

[Dick Hoogendijk]

Op 9-1-2012 23:00, alexus schreef:
> Thank you so much for this wonderful feedback!
>
> One of the things I'm seeing is that unfortunately packages are
> somewhat limited vs ports...
>
> For example:
>
> I'm trying to get Apache httpd + PHP to work, after pkg_add -r php5,
> php5 doesn't have libphp5.so that links Apache and PHP together... so
> unless I'm doing something entirely wrong I basically must use ports
> and nothing else to get the functionality i need...
>
As I write in another reply: that's true and totally stupid imo.