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On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:50:38AM -0400, mailing lists at MacTutor wrote:
> Checkout /usr/ports/misc/porteasy
> 
> It might be just what you're looking for.
> 
> Alex

devel/portcheckout is something similar.  You can use it to install
ports+dependencies without having a local copy of the ports tree.  

Simply installing binary packages is another handy solution, of course.  

GH