From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 30 00:29:04 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9796A16A403 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:29:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from turtle-out.mxes.net (turtle-out.mxes.net [216.86.168.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7126213C489 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:29:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-03.mxes.net (mxout-03.mxes.net [216.86.168.178]) by turtle-in.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D57510552 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:05:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F0A051937 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:05:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:05:45 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070330010545.24989db0@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20070330000732.efd7f7d5.coolzone@io.dk> References: <20070330000732.efd7f7d5.coolzone@io.dk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:29:04 -0000 On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:07:32 +0200 Rico Secada wrote: > Hi All. > > I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers > for about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! But keeping > third party ports/packages updated is just to timeconsuming IMHO. Why do you care? I just run portmanager with nice, in the background. It doesn't interfere with anything or require any intervention. Unless there is something suspicious in UPDATING it's perfectly OK to shutdown overnight. > Building everything from ports is ok, on a quick machine, but even on > a quick machine building KDE takes a LOT of time. Waiting until the > stable packages are ready takes about 2 - 3 weeks, and until then, a > lot of other stuff needs to be updated. What does it matter? Why does it need updating? If an individual package is in portaudit, build just that single port with portupgrade. Each full upgrade, on average, replaces n old bugs with n new bugs. It doesn't matter much whether you upgrade twice a day or twice a year.