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Old 2nd June 2008
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Building ports requires an Internet connection in order to fetch the source files for each port and all of its dependencies. The ports tree contains makefiles, patches, packing lists, and other components needed to create packages. It does not contain any of the application source code.

Last edited by jggimi; 2nd June 2008 at 11:39 AM. Reason: clarity
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