Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 20:27:14 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=F8rgaard?= <norgaard@locolomo.org> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: upgrading all ports Message-ID: <ef10de9a05062618273f9c36ec@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <42BD41CC.70202@locolomo.org> References: <20050625112256.GA32433@lothlorien.nagual.st> <42BD41CC.70202@locolomo.org>
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On 6/25/05, Erik N=F8rgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> wrote: >=20 > portupgrade isn't suitable for upgrading the entire machine, even though > you do recursive and Recursive. >=20 > It is much faster to deinstall everything and then installing from > ground up. And it is far more secure in not screwing up. >=20 > I recommend writing down a list of apps you need to be happy, deinstall > everything and then install those apps. Dependencies comes along fine, > and then whatever remains can be installed as needed. >=20 > Anyway, the worst that can happen is that you will screw up some user > app's - ok this is bad - but your system won't require a reinstall :-) >=20 > Cheers, Erik With Gnome, KDE, etc. I completely agree with you, portupgrade always manages fudge something up. What are some easy ways to do this... lets say for example I updated to gnome 2.12 what would be an easy (automated) way to remove all of Gnome 2.10 and all of my GTK apps without removing KDE and my QT apps?
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