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"Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> Personally I think maneging ports is such an integral part of running
> a FreeBSD system that it should be in the Handbook itself.  

FWIW, I agree with Simon here.  The ports+packages system is very much
part of the daily care and feeding.  If this amounts to moving the
description of how to install ports and maintain them on a running
system out of the Handbook, I think it's not a very wise move.

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