Port system "problems"

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2012-Jun-26 14:41:32 -0700, Freddie Cash <fjwcash at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Peter Jeremy <peter at rulingia.com> wrote:
>> but I hope the ports build system will not
>> be thrown out as part of the pkgng migration.
>
>Where do you think packages would come from, if not built by the ports tree?  ;)

As long as it's still available to users.  Presumably most
"packages-only" Linux distros have some sort of build mechanism as
well but it's not readily accessible by ordinary users.  I would hope
FreeBSD doesn't go down this path.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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