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From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Subject: Re: determining what's in the base system
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> that time.  Now imagine that you want to know whether a given utility was
> something that came with the base system or was installed by some port or
> package later on.  What's the easiest way to do that (preferably without
> installing the FreeBSD base system on a computer and checking whether the
> utility is present)?

ports go to /usr/local unlike base system's things.