parts of ports

[messmate]

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:54:10 +0900
Luke Kearney <lukek at meibin.net> wrote:

>
>On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 16:55:35 +0200
>"B.Hansson" <bernt at bah.homeip.net> spake thus:
>
>> messmate skrev:
>> 
>> > Hi,
>> > is there a way to install only parts of the ports tree to set 
>> > them up ? The ports tree takes 237M up :(
>> 
>> Yes. tar -zxvf ports.tar.gz path/to/port/you/want/to/install
>> 
>> That's how I did it. See to it that you have Mk, Templates and such 
>> directorys in your /usr/ports dir.
>> 
>> 
Why is it so insecure have the ports installed ?
When downloading (cvs) i presume ?
mess-mate