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Old 5th October 2008
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Originally Posted by killasmurf86 View Post
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
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.
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