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* Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>:

> On Sat, 2006-May-13 21:39:46 +0100, Shaun Amott wrote:
>>If bandwidth really is a problem, then it is possible - but not
>>necessarily a good idea - to check out individual ports via CVS.
> 
> This is not supported.  If you want to build ports from source,
> you _must_ have a complete and consistent ports tree.  Otherwise
> you are on your own.

If one wants to checkout only the necessary bits of the ports tree via
CVS, des' porteasy script is worth a try (it's found in misc/porteasy).