Saving Time with Binary Packages

If you have several or more workstations running the same version of FreeBSD, you can save yourself some time by creating binary packages on one system using "make package" or "make package-recursive", and installing them on the other systems using "pkg_add", rather the compiling from source on every machine.

Note that the package-recursive target isn't currently smart enough to build just the missing packages. It will rebuild all dependent packages even if they already exist. There's no harm in this, but it will take quite a while for some ports.

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