In FreeBSD package provider by default use whichever of ports or package install that provides the most recent version

In FreeBSD it is pretty common that people update their ports using something like:
portsnap fetch
portsnap update

The result of this is that installing from ports or packages has a very different result. In most cases on a system where ports has been updated and all the packages have been updated a default install from packages using "pkg_add -r" will fail with a conflict.

It would be more sensible that the default behaviour should be to install from from /usr/ports or pkg_add depending on which provides the most recent version.

This could then be overridden by:

package "foo" do
source "ports"
end

or

package "foo" do
source "packages"
end