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From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: Who is behind the ports?
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"Charles A. Landemaine" <landemaine@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there some sort of automation creating so many ports?

Just humonguous amounts of
- manpower
- time to let things ripe

A good porter will create a port that requires little maintentance when
updating and little support effort -- after all, the port isn't the
software itself, just machine-readable build and install instructions.

-- 
Matthias Andree