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From: "Josh Carroll" <josh.carroll@gmail.com>
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Cc: Jerry <jerrymc@msu.edu>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Patches in FreeBSD
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> and you can update your third party packages via binary packages
> (which you can get from freebsd.org or build yourself)...so it seems
> these two solutions would be a great fit.

Right, using packages instead of ports means he can do binary updates
of packages as well, without having to recompile them from ports for
version updates.

Josh