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Date:      Sat, 3 Dec 2005 17:51:32 -0800
From:      Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl>
Subject:   Re: How often portupgrades?
Message-ID:  <200512031751.33752.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <000d01c608c0$631632a0$2401a8c0@XGISH>
References:  <000d01c608c0$631632a0$2401a8c0@XGISH>

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On Saturday 24 December 2005 11:29,  the author Kiffin Gish contributed to the 
dialogue on-
 How often portupgrades?: 

>Just wondering what a good rule of thumb is in how often to run
> portupgrades.
>
>I figure that once a week should be sufficient, however each time it runs it
> can take up to a few hours to complete which seems like an unnecessary
> hassle to me. Once it even started rebuilding the complete gnome port which
> took a couple days!
>
>Is this worthwhile? What are the benefits?
>
>Thanks alot in advance.
>
You pays yr processing time and makes yr choice :-)

I have been using freebsd for quite a long time and I find that sometimes I am 
constantly upgrading a machine which is being used for development something 
and then when I just need systems to carry on doing the same thing day after 
day I get into the if it aint broke dont fix it mode! Then a new 
application/need comes along and the cycle starts over again!

david





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