>> 1. Spell out very clearly its purpose - is it to populate a jail, for
>> example?
>
> Populating a chroot/jail is one purpose.
Whoops, it occurs to me that using -P to populate a chroot/jail
would only work for simple cases.
There is the -C option, but it "needs to be a fairly
complete file sy
> 1. Spell out very clearly its purpose - is it to populate a jail, for
> example?
Populating a chroot/jail is one purpose.
Another is to test a new version of a package without messing up the
existing version.
There are bound to be other reasons.
Compiling the port rather than installing a pa
