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Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Man that is lame compared to the power of rpm commands.  You can't
> be serious about offering those limp pkg_* as being similar.

Possibly, but because of the relative difficulty of preparing RPMs,
you tend to be dependent on the vendor to produce them before you can
upgrade/install said software.  ports/packages are much easier to
prepare, and the effort is massively distributed, so you end up
getting your software packaged and installed sooner.