From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-Id: <200507191640.j6JGe0a0004350@gate.bitblocks.com>
To: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] First-timer help 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:10:40 EDT."
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From: Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@BitBlocks.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:40:00 -0700
Cc: 
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> > I keep thinking about gentoo, since I really still like freebsd better and
> > gentoo reminds me of the freebsd ports collection. There are days I miss
> > from my old job which involved a lot of FreeBSD work ...
> 
> Gentoo and FreeBSD ports are both getting to be a little ridiculous.
> I mean, really, why should I have to compile Firefox in order to install
> it on my laptop?  Let someone else waste the hours of cpu time to
> compile it and the libraries it rides in on.  All I want is a binary.

You don't have to compile any port locally.  You can do, e.g.,
 
    pkg_add -r gaim