On Thu, 6 May 2004, Mark Thomas wrote:

> What it the history of the Packages collection? Did it come from FreeBSD, or
> some place else, or did it originate with NetBSD? I did some searching but
> came up empty.

The first cvs commit was this:

revision 1.1.1.1
date: 1997/08/20 10:21:06;  author: agc;  state: Exp;  lines: +0 -0
Initial import of FreeBSD's ports makefiles.

and I seem to remember that that followed a long period of discussion
on current-users.

Frederick