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From: Melvyn Sopacua <melvyn@magemana.nl>
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Hi,

So, after the detour...


>> On 4/9/2014 12:38, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:

>>> Though it makes no sense in my mind. Distfiles belong to ports not
>>> packages. What problem was solved by moving this?

This still doesn't make sense. Distfiles are of no concern to binary
packages, so why would I continue to clutter /var/db/pkg with a large
tree of directories that is then duplicated to /var/db/ports?

What problem in portmaster or the options framework was solved by moving
this?