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sysutils/calamares: new port, GUI system installer

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sysutils/calamares: new port, GUI system installer

Calamares is a GUI-based Linux system installer (e.g. for Linux
distro's to get their ISO image installed on a computer). It can
(probably) do FreeBSD as well, although it needs some more work
in order to do the right thing for ZFS (and also the traditional
fetching-base-tarballs bits). Since it is modular and extensible,
adding the FreeBSD-specific bits can be done later. Having a
port seems like a good start (with future ports calamares-extensions
and calamares-freebsd so that a live-ISO-installer could work
with just those packages installed; potentially useful for
helloSystem, FuryBSD and others if they care to collaborate
on GUI-installer-development rather than bespoke bits).

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adridgAuthored on Sep 28 2021, 10:55 AM
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R11:59c39efaa8ae: sysutils/pdsh: resurrect^Wreadd previously expired port
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