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Date:      Wed, 26 Jan 2022 23:47:09 +0000
From:      Pau Amma <pauamma@gundo.com>
To:        Sysadmin Lists <sysadmin.lists@mailfence.com>
Cc:        Freebsd ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: anki latest? (FIXED -  read for details)
Message-ID:  <e7a82b7034b7d58264c24ad0ca35f642@gundo.com>
In-Reply-To: <747854843.1338649.1643239936090@ichabod.co-bxl>
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On 2022-01-26 23:32, Sysadmin Lists wrote:
>> ----------------------------------------
>> From: Pau Amma <pauamma@gundo.com>
>> On 2022-01-25 01:49, Jan Beich wrote:
>> > For example, mixing ports and packages can easily lead
>> > to such a situation.
>> 
>> I was warned against that, and have by and large stuck to packages. (I
>> think I've only needed to use a port was for drm-(mumble) when 
>> upgrading
>> from 12.1 to 12.2, as the package stopped working and IIRC still 
>> didn't
>> after "pkg upgrade -f".)
> 
> I've been mixing ports and packages without issue for years. There are 
> a dozen
> programs whose defaults don't fit my environment, so I build those
> with poudriere.

That only works if you have a computer powerful enough to run poudriere 
and host a repository, whether on a dedicated host, in a jail, or in a 
virtual machine. Not an option on my single laptop and its 8GB RAM.




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