I was hoping to get a bit more of a response to a recent posting of mine with regard to using svn to fetch files for ports My proposal: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-ports@freebsd.org/msg23776.html A summary of what has been going on: http://wiki.freebsd.org/EitanAdler/ports-svn This is something that more than 2 people should have an input on