On top of the hassle of using ports... I have a nearly friction-free experience with FreeBSD ports. portsnap fetch && portsnap extract cd /usr/ports/lang/

On top of the hassle of using ports... I have a nearly friction-free experience with FreeBSD ports. portsnap fetch && portsnap extract cd /usr/ports/lang/python && make install clean cd /usr/ports/www/nginx && make install clean ...etc Sometimes, during an extensive upgrade of hundreds of ports (portupgrade -a) I've gotten into a situation in which the ports system got confused a bit (it happened twice with a PHP extension). In such a case, pkg_deinstalling liberally Apache, PHP, PHP extensions, Apr-utils and maybe some others like freetype, and then installing the web stack ports again has always solved the problem.