On Friday 24 March 2006 10:26, Jukka Marin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 08:17:42AM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > An alternative that may work for some is to add a small collection of
> > popular packages to the installation ISOs and extend the sysinstall to
> > allow pkg_add'ing.
>
> Sounds like a great idea to me.  Shells, editors and other essential things
> that "everybody" will install, anyway.
>
>   -jm

Maybe it is not available for all ports but for sparc there is an installation 
iso that contains a useful selection of binary packages.

/Anders