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Originally Posted by figaro
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.
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yes its easy to mix them, and its easy to get things screwed up because of that. if theres any backward compatibility issues with any ports or regression, then you may be in trouble with different versions of dependencies being installed.
only mix when you HAVE to.
