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Old 4th October 2008
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One thing to remember: packages are built using the ports tree. See the package target in the ports(8) man page.

This means, you can use a single system with the ports tree to build packages that can be installed on other systems. This really comes in handy when you have a bunch of similar systems (build once, install many times), or when you have a fast system and a slow system (build on the fast one, install on the second one).

In effect, you can have the best of both worlds.
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