What is the Ports Collection?

Sanctioned applications ported to FreeBSD
Over 2,300 ports available today
Just type `make install' and you're ready to go

Few files per port (`skeleton') in CVS repository
Makefile
checksum list
patches
description/package files
Most of work done in a macro file bsd.port.mk

Binary packages also available for most ports
Pre-compiled, ready to install
FreeBSD release CDs come with over 2,000 packages
pkg_add, pkg_delete, pkg_info, pkg_create

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