What does it mean to use ports?

[Robert Huff]

Polytropon writes:

>  > Can I globally set compile options like -march=native (or 
>  > whatever the equivalent for FreeBSD is)?
>  
>  The file /etc/make.conf can be used for that. See "man 5 make.conf"
>  for details.

	Verbum sapienti: be careful when you do this.  The settings in
make.conf are used for _every_ compilation on the system - ports
... and world ... and the kernel,
	I am still trying to find an exposition of the logic that
prevents a "/etc/ports.conf" as a sibling to "/etc/src.conf" and
make.conf. 


			Respectfully,


				Robert Huff