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Subject: Re: Removing http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ and replacing with
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> Perhaps my concern about replacing the ports page with Freshports is that by
> default Freshports focuses more on the changes than on the categories and it
> makes a little more difficult (for newbies) to find the port they want. 

Yeah, thats true. /ports/ actually *could* be replaced with
http://www.freshports.org/categories.php but not with the Freshports
frontpage. I always liked /ports/ more because of that.

Another primitive alternative (that I use occasionally) would be
file:///usr/ports/README.html ;-)

/Roman