From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 20 20:13:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EE1716A4CE for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 20:13:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from qsmtp4.america.net (qsmtp4.america.net [69.60.160.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15DA543D39 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 20:13:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trey@fastmail.fm) Received: from [65.82.45.189] (helo=fastmail.fm) by qsmtp4.america.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1AXuyO-000343-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 23:13:44 -0500 Message-ID: <3FE51DE3.9020807@fastmail.fm> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 23:13:23 -0500 From: Trey Sizemore User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Initial install (packages vs. ports) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 04:13:46 -0000 Just for clarification... The trade off I see with installing from CD vs. doing a minimal install is that when it comes time to upgrade it will cause more issues. By this I mean that if I do a minimal install and then later install from ports it will be more seamless than installing first from packages (like KDE, for example) and then trying to upgrade with ports later. Certainly packages from the CD would be installed quicker than having to build from ports, but at the cost of future upgrades. Is this true, a little off the mark, or way off? Thanks,