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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Steven Susbauer
<stupendoussteve@hotmail.com> wrote:
> ports-mgmt/portupgrade is a useful tool for easily getting packages and
> ports, it includes the tool portinstall which does what it says it does.
> By running "portinstall -P pkgname", it will install a port and
> dependencies with packages if available, otherwise they are built from
> source.
>
> portsman and portmanager are some other frontend tools that can help
> with package administration, it's really up to your own tastes.
>
> -Steve>

I tried portinstall, although dependecies are install with port sources still.
It take me a whole afternoon to portinstall math/py-neworkx, and it
still doesn't complete as yet.