[Bug 272795] FreeBSD Handbook section 4.5.1 could be better.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=272795

--- Comment #6 from Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> ---
> Maybe more relevant to focus on the version of FreeBSD. For example:

I'm not sure that addresses my concern, but perhaps my concern isn't valid?

The scenario I run into from time to time is:

- Install everything I need from packages.
- Discover 1 package was built with compile time flags different than I need.
- Rebuild that singular package from ports with the changed options.

What I am trying to do as a result is make sure the port I build is the "same"
as
the package one in terms of patches and the like.  And, then when an upgrade
cycle comes I generally upgrade the packages and then have to rebuild the one 
singular port.

I feel like that might be a common scenario, but perhaps not.  In any event I'm 
simply trying to make sure I'm all in sync, ideally programatically.

In the "a sysadmin can dream" category, I would love a world where I could tell
pkg "xyz from ports with options MAKEOPT=FOO" and then "pkg install" all the
normal
packages and have it build xyz from the ports when I tell it to install that
package,
and similarly do the same when I upgrade.  Basically turn them into one
seamless
bucket of software with the ability to pick and choose in a config file which
comes
from where.

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