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Old 06-12-2009
figaro figaro is offline
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You can mix ports and packages easily. Installing packages is faster (about 10 times as an educated guess), but is not always possible. Acrobat Reader for instance has no packaged installation for licensing reasons and must therefore be installed using the ports manner.