Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:02:36 +0200 From: Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My interactive version of pkg_add Message-ID: <20080927140236.GA73536@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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Marin Atanasov wrote: > So what do you think - is it worth improving upon it or it's a waste of > time? > Thanks for any suggestions. I think it is worth improving and certainly not a waste of time. Each work which allows to use precompiled packages more efficiently in FreeBSD is very useful, in my opinion. While compiling ports is very fine on a server, where only a small number of ports are installed - and then the tool "portmaster" does that really wonderfully, looking at the other extreme, a desktop with around a thousand installed ports is better managed through precompiled packages. And, sorry, but portupgrade is not the solution to do that, either with the -P or -PP option. I can only concur with the suggestion you mention, exploring ftp sites to discover what is available here. How to do that efficiently is harder. Apparently "official" FreeBSD ftp sites have an INDEX of available packages. I hope it is reliable. Then i suggest to download it and work from that. Best regards -- Michel TALON
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