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+<?php
+$title = "Now This is a Minimal Install!";
+if (isset($early) && $early) {
+	return;
+}
+include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/includes/head.php');
+?>
+
+<p>
+	I just got done configuring Poudriere on Freebsd 12.1-RELEASE. The
+	awesome thing about it is it allows you to configure and maintain your
+	own package repository. All of the ports and their dependencies are
+	built from source with personalized options. That means that I can
+	maintain my own repo of just the packages I need with just the
+	compile-time options I need. For example, for the Nvidia driver set I
+	disabled all Wayland related flags. I use Xorg so there was no need to
+	have that functionality built in.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+	Compile times are pretty long but I hope to change that by upgrading my
+	home server to FreeBSD as well (from Ubuntu Server). Then I can
+	configure poudriere to serve up a ports tree and my own pkg repo from
+	there. The server is a lot faster than my laptop and will build packages
+	way faster, and I'll be able to use those packages on both the server
+	and my laptop and any jails I have running. Jails (and ZFS) also make
+	poudriere really cool to use as all of the building is done inside a
+	jail. When the time comes I can just remove the jail and poudriere ports
+	tree from my laptop and update pkg to point to my web server.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+	This is, as I understand it, the sane way to do package management in
+	FreeBSD. The binary package repo is basically the ports tree
+	pre-assembled with default options. Sometimes those packages are
+	compiled without functionality that most users don't need. In those
+	situations, you're forced to use ports. The trouble is you're not really
+	supposed to mix ports and binary packages. The reason, again as I
+	understand it, is because ports are updated more frequently. So binary
+	packages and ports can have different dependency versions, which can
+	sometimes break compatibility on an upgrade. Most FreeBSD users
+	recommend installing everything with ports (which is just a make install
+	inside the local tree) but then you lose the package management features
+	that come with pkg. Poudriere lets you kind of do both by creating your
+	"own personal binary repo" out of a list of preconfigured, pre-built
+	ports.
+</p>
+
+<p>FreeBSD rocks.</p>