packaging system

[Matthew Dillon]

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:I like the idea of standardizing everything, but I think theres two separat=
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:battles to be fought.  Theres the idea of package building and binary=20
:distribution if you ask me.  Ports currently does both, and I dont think th=
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:option to build from source should be taken away from the user, but a 486=20
:router does not want to build apache, even if they want to run it.  Making=

    The wonderful things about my VFS environment idea is that it works
    equally well for source AND binary management.  Instead of special-casing
    build time, install time, and run-time requirements, all three can be
    maintained using the same set of VFS abstraction tools.

							-Matt