Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 09:13:24 -0500 From: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating Instructions Message-ID: <5A0AFA04.2090801@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20171114133310.GA4253@c720-r314251> References: <BN6PR2001MB1730B1AE0B338F8A0EB1F48A80280@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <34bd4349-0215-5341-3f32-b8d21afbde99@columbus.rr.com> <f52dc717-a17c-c8db-d930-7da671cb99c2@qeng-ho.org> <BN6PR2001MB17305E330CBE91FE9A9BAB2E80280@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <20171114133310.GA4253@c720-r314251>
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Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día martes, noviembre 14, 2017 a las 01:22:59p. m. +0000, Carmel NY escribió: > >> Personally, I consider "poudriere" over kill for the average user, especially >> a user who is using FreeBSD on a single PC or laptop. > > The 'average user' should either install pre-build packages or compile > ports from sources using poudriere, even if he/she does this on a single > PC or laptop. Just my humble opinions after compiling ports 15++ years > from sources. > > matthias I agree that "poudriere" is over kill for the average user. It's an un-needed work horse that just complicates things. The current direction is toward always using packages first, and now pkg flavors will address many of the reasons previously requiring a port compile, and only as a last resort compiling the single port without requiring the complete port tree being installed. I see "poudriere" as a necessary tool for the builders of the package system and maybe some side case users. But it is not a main stream tool and the handbook should document as such.
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