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On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:43:11 -0500, Marcus von Appen <mva@freebsd.org>  
wrote:

> That sound good to me and something I'd vote for, since it does not
> split ports on a technical, but functional level into packages.

Yes this is exactly what we're aiming for. Right now if someone installs  
FreeBSD and they pkg_add apache22 and php5 they can't even serve PHP  
because php5 doesn't install mod_php. Things like this are as frustrating  
for new users as it is for people trying to maintain many, many servers.