USING DPORTS SOFTWARE IN DRAGONFLY BSD BASE

* GOALS

- Improving and/or replacing our VENDOR software procedure.
- Integrating software from DPorts into DragonFly without needing to modify
  the base system.

* APPROACH

In DragonFly's src repo there is going to be a directory called 'dports.base'
which will contain the dragonfly/base meta-port along with some other
configuration files needed by the make system.  All dport dependencies will
be retrieved from the dports tree in /usr/dports.

The dragonfly/base meta-port specifies all ports that we intend to include
in our official distributions.  Many additional ports that the main set of
ports are dependent on will also be built.

Our Makefile system for building the world is now able to build these ports
by creating a custom chrooted environment and running dsynth inside it for
a completely pristine build of the required ports.

--- DEVELOPER NOTES ---

We have not yet decided what to do with programs like LEX and YACC which
are integrated into base, but the concept is to reduce the number of
third-party applications that are in the base repo, except for those required
to bootstrap the dsynth build and get basic networking operational.