In the spirit of documenting my FreeBSD system administration practices, I thought I would mention the ports I install on every system — regardless of function. In the future you may see some of these migrate into the base installation, as happening with Portsnap. Others are well-established but have stayed out of the base system for various reasons. You can read a summary of many of these tools here as well as a summary here of some of the tools you can read here for more information about them.”]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2006/10/essential-freebsd-ports.html