Don't know if this interests anyone, but I made a ports-like system for Debian. If you like Debian, but miss ports from FreeBSD, this might be of help. It will pull source code, build, install and even upgrade them. It doesn't require installing dependencies from source, but uses apt/binaries for them instead. Thus its less time consuming than FreeBSD ports to get and build source code. You only download the source you request , so it doesn't use as much disk space as FreeBSD's ports either. It works with apt so they don't overwrite each other's changes. I've tested it with Debian Sid, Kali and Devuan. It may work with other Debian variants. If you give it a try let me know.
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