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FreeBSD Ports and the Recipe-Based Model of Source Package Distribution

The FreeBSD Ports Collection separated software recipes from upstream source code, letting a shared tree of Makefiles, patches and metadata automate fetching, configuring, compiling and packaging third-party applications.

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