In message <199703200958.UAA03093@nemeton.com.au> Giles Lean writes:
: P.S. With the FreeBSD ports tree the distfiles are untouched source as
: originally distributed, so you always have the option of rolling your
: own from untouched source.  (Just in case not everyone knew this. :)

FYI, the FreeBSD ports stuff can live anywhere and install into
anywhere, but it does have a minor problem with the
/opt/<PKG>/{bin,lib,etc} structure.  By default it lives in /usr/ports
and installs into /usr/local, but that is just make vars that can be
tweaked to a local site's requirements.  If /opt/<PKG>/{bin,lib,etc}
strucutre is important, and it could be made to be optional, I don't
see a problem with it going into the bsd.ports.mk.

If NetBSD wants to go down this path, chances are real good they may
nbeed to keep their own copy of the ports tree with the latest tweaks
that haven't made it into FreeBSD tree yet for whatever reason.
However, even if this doesn't happen, having the ability to build
"most" ports w/o much effort is better than having to climb this
mountain each time, imho.

Warner