Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

[Randy Bush]

> This is why there are precompiled packages on ftp.freebsd.org which you
> can install with 'pkg_add -r'.  You can install them from any FTP
> mirror, actually; just point PACKAGEROOT at the mirror:

why isn't this stuff in the docs?  oh, it is!  silly me.  is the problem
that there are just too much doc or two little reading?

</sarcasm>