enquiries for ports collections to be available on every distro

[Jim Mock]

On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 at 00:19:01 -0800, pesoy misak wrote:
> Dear All FreeBSDer (Maintainer)
> 
> Many thanks if one of you could give me any response to my request on
> the ports collections.
> 
> I am a great fans of linux and unix especially FreeBSD and Debian.
> well not mentionned about openBSD and netBSD coz hasn't got the OS
> yet. but I am really abit disappointed with ports collections which
> according to me a very vital applications that i very very need badly.
> well of course not all of them. I would be grateful if someone could
> make all the ports and shipped with the FreeBSD OS and downloadable
> like for example in Debian that have ant, jserv, tomcat in side their
> package management that can be installed in the fly that could be
> found in the CD distro. I would really like that FreeBSD could do
> something like that. coz i am not always go to internet and can't
> download that heavy program. i would prefer pay more for the FreeBSD
> CD rather than waiting for the downloading time

The ports tree and packages are already on the CD set.

- jim

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