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Subject: Re: Ports vs. Packages
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Charles Howse wrote:

>>Packages are nice for the speed you can install them with, 
>>but can be much 
>>harder to deal with the dependencies unless you use something like 
>>portupgrade (which is much more useful after you've got what you want 
>>installed and want to keep it all up to date).
>>    
>>
>
>Well, that begs the question, how about installing what I want from
>packages and then using portupgrade to keep it up2date?
>
That's the whole point of portupgrade. Keeping it all up to date. The 
ports system is much, much better than Redhat's update mechanism too. I 
install all of my ports from source on my PII 333 machine even though I 
have to wait for them all to compile. The performance increase of 
binaries compiled for your system is worth the wait IMO.

Sometimes if I don't feel like waiting, I'll just let portupgrade fetch 
the distfiles, then compile everything when I go to bed.

Good Luck,
Jason