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Hi!

> I agree that there was a lot of change in the ports tree recently.
> But: There is a reason for this: The ports tree has to be cleaner
> so that it can provide better automatic processes to the users.
> It's not easy, but it's getting there.

I found a presentation which really goes deep into the process
and reasoning behind going to pkgng and staging:

http://www.slideshare.net/VsevolodStakhov/new-solver-for-freebsd-pkg

Very cool stuff.

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