[FreeBSD-Announce] BSD-Licensed Combinatorics library/utility

[Devin Teske]

> On Jan 5, 2020, at 09:26, Chris Rees <crees at bayofrum.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Devin,
> 
> There are many examples where utilities have moved from ports to base- portsnap being one I can think of.
> 
> I don't think that ports is really a dead zone for software- pkg install -y cmb takes around seven seconds, and I would struggle to imagine that anyone uses a system with no ports installed.
> 
> The argument would obviously change if you wanted to use it in bsdinstall or similar- is that why you're frustrated here?
> 

1. Build option survey for testing different combinations of options when building base
2. Building ports built with different combinations of options when available

Both of those situations may preclude having any packages installed.
— 
Devin