Re: ports

[Julio Merino <julio%meroh.net@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:08 PM, John Marino <netbsd%marino.st@localhost> 
wrote:
>
> To be fair, on FreeBSD a "port" refers to the set of files in the ports tree
> that build a package.  With pkgsrc, _BOTH_ the set of files AND the built
> software are called a package.

If you want to remove the ambiguity: the former is a "source package"
and the latter is a "binary package".

The term "port" should never be used in a pkgsrc context to refer to
packages.  (If you are curious as to why NetBSD has never used "port"
in this context, it is because port is the terminology to refer to a
particular adaptation of NetBSD to a platforms: e.g. NetBSD/amd64,
NetBSD/i386, etc.)

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Julio Merino / @jmmv