In message <Pine.SUN.3.94.970320114606.5224K-100000@nyx.digex.net> Rob Deker writes:
: I don't know. I personally don't like monolithic packages. It makes life fo
: those with limited disk space nasty. If I want to get a copy of something like
: top, and all I want is top, I dont' want to have to rm hundreds of megs of
: other cruft to get it....
: 

One component of the FreeBSD ports system is the pkg_* utilities.  You
want to get rid of ssh, then you say pkg_delete ssh-1.2.17 and bang,
it is gone.  The packages that are installed can either be full binary
distributions or after you've built from sources.

Warner