Thread: Why ports?
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Old 14th July 2008
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But how does that provide benefits from the user's point of view? Linux has repositories which they can download precompiled binaries.

FreeBSD allows you to compile from scratch. What is the advantages to this???
(Aside from optimization; if it is a huge factor, how much more optimized can it be?)
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