There’s a review of DragonFly 1.0A over at Newsforge by Jem Matzan of The Jem Report. It has valid points (Using the ports system is a hack) and some invalid ones (The reviewer wouldn’t benchmark with SMP off.)
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Is it true that ports must be compiled from the ports tree and from the dfly tree? That was the impression I got from reading this review. I thought there was one install utility that could catch both ports and the dfly patches..
You just make sure that the dfports tree is up-to-date, that the ports tree is up-to-date, and then you use ports. It auto-detects dfports overrides.
Just like others have said, he didn’t do his homework.