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From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
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Leonard Zettel writes:

> My own experiences have given me a definite bias toward using the
> ports system to compile stuff to be added to my system rather than
> going with the binary packages.  I get the impression that many
> port maintainers who are fairly careful about keeping their port
> versions workable and patched only give a relative lick and promise
> to their packages.

Unfortunately, bugs in the handling of my SCSI disks prevent me from
doing anything that is disk-intensive without crashing the system, so
downloading the ports collection probably won't be possible.

-- 
Anthony