From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 16 23:11:28 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1B821065674 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:11:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout022.mac.com (asmtpout022.mac.com [17.148.16.97]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B50738FC16 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:11:28 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from cswiger1.apple.com (unknown [17.209.4.71]) by asmtp022.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-23.01 (7.0.4.23.0) 64bit (built Aug 10 2011)) with ESMTPSA id <0LXW003J6Z2ZHS70@asmtp022.mac.com> for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:11:23 +0000 (GMT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.5.7110,1.0.211,0.0.0000 definitions=2012-01-16_05:2012-01-16, 2012-01-16, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1201160279 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <201201161651.53883.lumiwa@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:11:22 -0800 Message-id: <92176E96-D87B-4704-A53B-2FC1E050BEFA@mac.com> References: <201201161651.53883.lumiwa@gmail.com> To: ajtiM X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xcb-util 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: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:11:28 -0000 On Jan 16, 2012, at 2:51 PM, ajtiM wrote: > FreeBSD 9.0 is out, many people updated, new installation...KDE 4.7.4 is > coming in the ports (I hope no) and now all this reinstallation for xcb-util. > Is it not possible to synchronized a little with the other ports? You're the one managing your machine(s). If you want a package systems which releases less frequently than FreeBSD ports are updated, then either do not update your ports as rapidly, or consider switching to something like pkgsrc from NetBSD. > I need to reinstall about 300 ports (KDE, Firefox, libxul, GIMP...). > It is to much... Why do you need to reinstall? Regards, -- -Chuck