With a bit of hoop jumping its quite possible to run DA on a server and manage just about everything with ports, the exception I've got at the moment is exim which I'm still running from the da_exim pkg, vm-pop3d isn't an issue we're using Dovecot and proftpd seems fine straight from ports. The biggest hoop was apache, but we compromised on /usr/local/etc/apache22 and its config then including the ips.conf and /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf just having the Include lines for the virtual hosts.
We've only done this on one server though, after that management opted for FedorianOSHat instead and someone else now gets to manage them, I handle our internal systems (FreeBSD) manually.
Only thing I'm now wondering is if a portupgrade update of perl to 5.8.9 is going to break Exim at all. It looks like /usr/sbin/exim is statically linked but I'm still a bit apprehensive.
We've only done this on one server though, after that management opted for FedorianOSHat instead and someone else now gets to manage them, I handle our internal systems (FreeBSD) manually.
Only thing I'm now wondering is if a portupgrade update of perl to 5.8.9 is going to break Exim at all. It looks like /usr/sbin/exim is statically linked but I'm still a bit apprehensive.