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Date:      Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:04:54 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Marcin Wisnicki <mwisnicki+freebsd@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD problems and preliminary ways to solve
Message-ID:  <j2u27m$euj$1@dough.gmane.org>
References:  <slrnj4oiiq.21rg.vadim_nuclight@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net> <dae4b29c363977d83e857bed8e253ae8@etoilebsd.net>

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On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:49:30 +0000, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>
>>  * Options must be included and installed to /var/db/ports/*/options
>>    (this will allow to rebuild installed binary pkg as port)
>>
>>
> This could be a good idea :) I'll keep it for pkgng
> 

See also +BUILD_INFO and other metadata files in pkgsrc.
I couldn't find documentation but you can grab random binary package and 
inspect its contents.

<rant>
It's a shame that pkgsrc is so often ignored here. It solves so many 
problems of ports and is so far ahead that any effort to improve ports 
will never match what is already available from pkgsrc.
</rant>




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