I think Carpetsmoker said it best hehe.
Simply put, packages are created from ports, binaries are created from source code, and you can't really modify binaries very well !!!
One of the things I love most about ports is the possibility to build packages with the desired build options on one machine then nfs or sftp them over to other systems to be installed that also need them :-)
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Thou shalt check the array bounds of all strings (indeed, all arrays), for surely where thou typest ``foo'' someone someday shall type ``supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''.
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