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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion documentation/content/en/books/handbook/ports/_index.adoc
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In some cases, multiple packages will exist for the same application with different settings. For example, NGINX(R) is available as a `nginx` package and a `nginx-lite` package, the former has many more options enabled, but this in turn requires many things to be installed as dependencies for it to work, thus increasing space consumption and attack surface.
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The transitive dependencies can grow quite large, for example the full `nginx` package will pull in several X libraries which can be quite surprising, so building from ports allow you to choose only the options you need without a "kitchen sink" approach.In some cases, multiple packages will exist for the same application to specify certain settings.
The transitive dependencies can grow quite large, for example the full `nginx` package will pull in several X libraries which can be quite surprising, so building from ports allow you to choose only the options you need without a "kitchen sink" approach. In some cases, multiple packages will exist for the same application to specify certain settings.
* The licensing conditions of some software forbid binary distribution. Such software must be distributed as source code which must be compiled by the end-user.
* Some people do not trust binary distributions or prefer to read through source code in order to look for potential problems.
* Source code is needed in order to apply custom patches.
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