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Re:FreeBSD 12.0 is now available by trasz on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:04PM (#18658864)
Note that those two are not really disjoint - packages are built from ports; ports are a bit like source packages in the Linux world.
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Re:FreeBSD 12.0 is now available by floatboth on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:47PM (#18659241)
deb/rpm source packages are a bit weird.

AUR and Gentoo Portage are very closely inspired by Ports though.

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