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Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:

> That phrase -- "ports build packages" is just so right on so many
> levels.  Except for the literal description of what actually happens.

It seems that a lot of the supposed confusion of novices comes from
the fact that we don't have a separate word to refer to a port or
package *after* it has been installed.  People make a naive assumption
that the "package database" has something to do with packages but not
with ports...