packages question

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:30:34AM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:24:54AM +0100, Christopher Bingham wrote:
> 
> > If I download the two iso images (1 and 2) of version 5.2.1, 
> > will this include all the packages in the ports directory of 
> > the ports directory in the ftp mirror I am using? 
> 
> No.  There's 10,000+ ports: far more than will fit on two whole CD
> Roms, let alone the spare space after the system stuff has been
> written there.

...and all the packages that are buildable and distributable are
available on the FTP site.

Kris
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