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On Jan 9, 2012, at 2:00 PM, alexus wrote:
> One of the things I'm seeing is that unfortunately packages are
> somewhat limited vs ports...

Packages come precompiled with default options.  For people who want non-default options, you would need to build your own package from ports rather than using the precompiled one.

> For example:
> 
> I'm trying to get Apache httpd + PHP to work, after pkg_add -r php5,
> php5 doesn't have libphp5.so that links Apache and PHP together... so
> unless I'm doing something entirely wrong I basically must use ports
> and nothing else to get the functionality i need...

You can use ports and packages together just fine.  In particular, you ought to be able to use the Apache-2.x package with a php5 port that you build to enable mod_php.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck