Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:39:19 +0200 From: Rico Secada <coolzone@io.dk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop Message-ID: <20070330023919.04e13e06.coolzone@io.dk> In-Reply-To: <20070330010545.24989db0@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <20070330000732.efd7f7d5.coolzone@io.dk> <20070330010545.24989db0@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:05:45 +0100 RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:07:32 +0200 > Rico Secada <coolzone@io.dk> wrote: > > > Hi All. > > > > I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers > > for about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! But keeping > > third party ports/packages updated is just to timeconsuming IMHO. > > Why do you care? I actually think it's just a "bad" habit! Jumping from release to release would actually be alright!! > I just run portmanager with nice, in the background. It doesn't > interfere with anything or require any intervention. Unless there is > something suspicious in UPDATING it's perfectly OK to shutdown > overnight. > > > > Building everything from ports is ok, on a quick machine, but even on > > a quick machine building KDE takes a LOT of time. Waiting until the > > stable packages are ready takes about 2 - 3 weeks, and until then, a > > lot of other stuff needs to be updated. > > What does it matter? Why does it need updating? If an individual > package is in portaudit, build just that single port with portupgrade. > > Each full upgrade, on average, replaces n old bugs with n new bugs. It > doesn't matter much whether you upgrade twice a day or twice a year. You are right! Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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