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From: Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: A package for the ubuntu-font port?
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On 25 April 2013 04:40, Grant D. Watson <grant_watson@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ports folks,
>
> I sent a message to Kevin Lo, since the ports search site lists his address for ubuntu-font, but he said this isn't his area.
>
> I am a Linux user who's been playing with FreeBSD and enjoying it; in
> creating and destroying experimental VMs I've made great use of binary
> packages.  For some reason the ubuntu-font port is not available as a
> package.  Would that be difficult to change?  It's no hardship to
> install it from ports of course, but having it as a package would be
> convenient.
>

There's no reason it shouldn't have a package build, I think you'll
just have to wait until the full package sets are up for use.

If you can't wait, I built some amd64 ones for you :)

http://www.bayofrum.net/tb/index.php?action=describe_port&id=2405

Chris