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From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
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Subject: Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install
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On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:23:58AM -0800, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> How am I supposed to install prebuilt packages (and the myriad of
> dependencies) from now on?

I strongly recommend using portmaster.  The manpage is very dense but
to start with, use something like the following (I'm just picking one
port at random, pkg_cutleaves, to install):

  portmaster -PP ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves

mcl