Ports vs. Packages

[Charles Howse]

> Packages are nice for the speed you can install them with, 
> but can be much 
> harder to deal with the dependencies unless you use something like 
> portupgrade (which is much more useful after you've got what you want 
> installed and want to keep it all up to date).

Well, that begs the question, how about installing what I want from
packages and then using portupgrade to keep it up2date?