Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 03:43:06 +1100 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Javier Vasquez <jevv.cr@gmail.com>, andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Looking @ upgrades mechanisms... Message-ID: <20081202164306.GA3341@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <200812021722.54517.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <c88cc5730812012241i6ea540uc8a56f40c3d8237e@mail.gmail.com> <200812020928.46110.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <20081202161358.GC2158@ozzmosis.com> <200812021722.54517.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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On Tue 2008-12-02 17:22:53 UTC+0100, Mel (fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) wrote: > > Yes, this happens. -PP is not ideal for regular updates but it's > > still useful for when you have a new FreeBSD install with no packages > > installed, and want to get up and running quickly, grabbing the most > > recent binaries of all your favourite ports instead of building them > > all from source. > > That's infinitely slower than pkg_add -r <list of leaves>. Hmm. Yes. I'm trying to remember why I did not like pkg_add -r. On the other hand I may be imagining any preference I had towards portupgrade -PP. Sorry :)
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