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On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:02:01 -0600, Scott Eberl wrote:

> OK can someone please explain this to me in detail? I've been reading
> all the release notes I can find and I'm not understanding why after
> upgrading to 9.1 I have to compile from source to install stuff now. It
> takes forever and asks me questions I have no idea what the answer is
> to. Early today I installed irssi which I had to do with make clean
> install because just doing pkg_add -r irssi complains about not being
> able to find the url of it.
> 
> Should I just reinstall 9.0 and not upgrade, will ports work correctly
> then?

What is difficult about compiling/installing from ports?