In the typical FreeBSD installation, one simply downloads a relatively small directory tree with index files, drills to the application one desires, and then executes from the command line: make
That command will then check for the presence of other required ports at the appropriate version level (and if missing, build and install or update them), and then download and build the deliverable. If the port builds properly,
make install
which will install the port on the machine, together with suitable configuration files, man pages and so forth. To remove the now-unnecessary interim work files (and thus reclaim some disk space) built during the install and build
make clean
Of course, you can check what ports have been installed, what versions they are at, whether new versions are available, and so and so forth.
This is, IMHO, a very good thing. "
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