> We could have some framework for such apps (and for things like CPAN, > RubyGems and so on) to offload maintaince burden for us, though...
Actually, I'd love to see the ports in question in until there is such framework. I always do ports for anything I install, as it is much easier to deal with packages then hunt all of these things down manually. I use neither of ports in question though. -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff