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On Mon, 7 Aug 1995, Randy Berndt wrote:

> Did I miss something.... I installed httpd from the PACKAGES area. That
> supposedly does not require compiling (and it is working as we speak). Is
> there some reason to use the port instead of the package?

You get the fully patched source code, for one. More importantly to me, 
and I'm unsure if this is by design or just a coincidence, the ports 
often have a lot of little info files that don't go out with the 
packages. For something like httpd this can be very convenient.