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Date:      Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:25:07 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>, Thomas Backman <serenity@exscape.org>, Olivier SMEDTS <olivier@gid0.org>, FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu>
Subject:   Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...
Message-ID:  <200907241625.16312.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200907220814.38246.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <1248027417.14210.110.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20090721215201.GA61999@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <200907220814.38246.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, John Baldwin wrote:
> > How many of those 800 ports are actually necessary and used?
> > It would be better to get generate a complete list of your
> > installed ports, use pkg_deinstall or pkg_delete to remove
> > all ports, and then selectively re-install ports that are
> > actually used.
>
> Xorg takes up ~200 ports alone (not including dependencies like perl,
> etc.) since the Xorg decided release engineering was too hard.  Throw
> in things like KDE, OOo, Firefox, etc. for a desktop and you can get
> a fairly high package count. :-/

Ooh I only have 1315 on mine, but a 1.4GHz Pentium-M is pretty slow=20
these days :(

Perhaps there needs to be a psuedo port for 'base' (or a few) so that=20
you can easily determine if you have already upgraded something against=20
the new base you installed.

Certainly I find it difficult to leave my laptop on for long enough to=20
recompile everything when I upgrade -current (since I actually use it=20
for work), and portupgrade -fa has no way to tell if it's already done=20
something. If there were pseudo base ports you could tell it to force=20
upgrade everything that depends on the old base port and it would DTRT.

I, of course, have no patches for such a thing :)

I've deleted /usr/local & /var/db/pkg in the past, it can be very=20
therapeutic :) However it is not so good when your mp3 collection is=20
mounted on /usr/local/mp3 and you forgot to unmount it first.. :(
=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
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