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Date:      Sat, 25 Jun 2005 12:15:17 -0500
From:      Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: upgrading all ports
Message-ID:  <200506251215.23198.kirk@strauser.com>
In-Reply-To: <42BD41CC.70202@locolomo.org>
References:  <20050625112256.GA32433@lothlorien.nagual.st> <42BD41CC.70202@locolomo.org>

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On Saturday 25 June 2005 06:36 am, Erik Nørgaard wrote:

> It is much faster to deinstall everything and then installing from
> ground up. And it is far more secure in not screwing up.

On toy systems, maybe.  I've got 654 ports installed on the machine I'm typing 
this on, and I assure you that it's much, much faster to selectively upgrade 
a few of them rather than starting over from scratch.
-- 
Kirk Strauser

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