Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 19:16:42 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk> To: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> Cc: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> Subject: Re: Why installing ports on a computer? Message-ID: <3565C10A.DF047499@internationalschool.co.uk> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980522122053.7762B-100000@james.hwcn.org>
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Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > Whatever is wrong with using CVSup to keep one's ports tree > up-to-date? I wasn't thinking so much of keeping things up to date, rather a way around having /usr/ports extracted to disk except when needed. Unpacking ports.tgz is the slowest part of the installation for most people and it eats a lot of space.. The only (minor) problem I have using cvsup to track the ports tree is that dependencies are installed based on the version number and not the port name - in many cases this is a good thing, but it can result in spending a long time fetching and making new versions of perl5,etc. that often aren't really needed. Stuart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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