Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:34:15 +0000 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating Instructions Message-ID: <806fdb3d-530a-3d38-2f7c-7b4c5d6fbadd@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <20171114133310.GA4253@c720-r314251> References: <BN6PR2001MB1730B1AE0B338F8A0EB1F48A80280@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <34bd4349-0215-5341-3f32-b8d21afbde99@columbus.rr.com> <f52dc717-a17c-c8db-d930-7da671cb99c2@qeng-ho.org> <BN6PR2001MB17305E330CBE91FE9A9BAB2E80280@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <20171114133310.GA4253@c720-r314251>
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On 14/11/2017 13:33, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día martes, noviembre 14, 2017 a las 01:22:59p. m. +0000, Carmel NY escribió: > >> Personally, I consider "poudriere" over kill for the average user, especially >> a user who is using FreeBSD on a single PC or laptop. > > The 'average user' should either install pre-build packages or compile > ports from sources using poudriere, even if he/she does this on a single > PC or laptop. Just my humble opinions after compiling ports 15++ years > from sources. In terms of numbers, the "average user" for FreeBSD may well be a Netflix or Cloudflare(*) devop. :-) If you mean a user with uncomplicated needs, I'd agree with you. In my case I've got ten machines, with two hardware architectures, some externally visible so with more paranoid port options than in house ones. For that poudriere is wonderful. (*) ISTR they use FBSD. -- An amusing coincidence: log2(58) = 5.858 (to 0.0003% accuracy).
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