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From: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>
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On 23/05/06, Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> wrote:
> All that said FreeBSD's ports are still the reference
> implementation, head-and-shoulders better than up2date, yum, rpm,
> apt-get, or anything else out there.

I guess you haven't looked at OpenBSD's branch of FreeBSD's
pkg_add(1), where they've added some cool support for automatic port
updating, which seems to work quite well:

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PkgUpdate
http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-espie/

Cheers,
Constantine.