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From: John Ioannidis <ji@research.att.com>
To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: ports vs. packages
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The ports and the packages collection don't seem to be mutually
consistent; there are ports for which there are no packages (which is
not a problem), and packages for which there are no ports (which
is). What gives?

Thanks

/ji