From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 22 13:22:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 964A116A4CE for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:22:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EA3743D46 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:22:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F83AC776C1 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:22:20 -0400 (EDT) X-Sasl-enc: LXdJIUVI6ohgJrzWY80zndgCda4Cezrh/SK/mYblXq/O 1114176139 Received: from gumby.localhost (unknown [80.41.69.0]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C3156D31D for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:22:19 -0400 (EDT) From: RW To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:22:17 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050422162656.1995.REES@ddcom.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <20050422162656.1995.REES@ddcom.co.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504221422.18136.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: mixing portupgrade with sysinstall safe? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:22:21 -0000 On Friday 22 April 2005 08:32, Joel wrote: > Really stupid question, I know. I just feel funny about using sysinstall > after doing a portupgrade. > > Probably is not a good idea? If by "using sysinstall", you mean using it to install packages, then it's not all that bad, although it's generally better to keep everthing up to date from ports. Having said that, the things that people with slow computers often prefer to install from package, such KDE or OpenOffice, often have more up to date versions available on other servers.