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Originally Posted by killasmurf86
The only defference is that packages will require less dependencies, as they don't have to be build from sources....
As an example i can mention deprecated cvsup..... to build it from sources you need ruby (if i remember correct), to install package, you don't need it
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Packages most likely require less or no
build dependencies, but the amount of runtime dependencies are not going to change except for some non-default options in ports. Most ports only require a few small build tools which if kept installed are very low maintenance (gmake, autotools, cmake, etc.). cvsup is a rare exception that required ezm3 to build it because it was written in Modula-3. But since cvsup hardly ever got updated, it wasn't much of an issue anyways.