> Well, given that the OpenBSD folks have adopted the ports collection
> also, wouldn't it make sense to adopt it as a loose standard?  I think
> we've proven that the concepts pretty much works, and even with over
> 550 ports now it's still quite maintainable.  Not to toot my own horn
> or anything here, it just seems the logical thing to do.

No need to toot the FreeBSD horn, Jordan.

The FreeBSD ports subsystem (minus a few quirks which make it not 100%
cross compile yet) is great stuff.  It's small, automated, and slick.

Hey, give some more disk space to the guys working on that stuff, they
deserve it.