proot: dpb meets chroot

With the p2k16 hackathon just coming to a close, Marc Espie has revealed one of the new things he worked on.

I've been using dpb(1) chroot'd for a long time, using my own methods. This is a first try at making things "simple." Basically,

proot -B /build

should more or less do something sane, and then you can build ports in that chroot.

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