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Old 21st August 2012
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Originally Posted by ocicat View Post
The targets only required the tree to be installed; no building is required.
Thanks, that sounds most useful in general. And I think the general situation is what is most important in this thread. For example, it is probably what applies to daemonfowl, who started the parent thread.

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Turning momentarily to my own situation, it turns out that in fact I do know what packages have been installed "today". That is because I've already downloaded the binary packages beforehand. (I do that as a result of slow Internet access.) So that explains why I wouldn't need to use ports for this. But again, most users' situations are probably quite different, and for them the ports tree may be a good way to go.
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