Productivity with FBSD, or: "portupgrade" vs. virus scans....

[Darren Henderson]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Kevin Kinsey wrote:


> How do you keep up with ports?

You don't have to keep up with them. Do you upgrade every application you 
have on your windows box every other thing?

If you decide to keep current on ports do it frequently rather then 
waiting for months. Do not install gnome.

>   *Do you have (or have you, at some time, had) much trouble?

The only time I've had significant issues is when full gnome upgrades 
appear - I could go on for pages about the pain these cause. Thanks to the 
recent update I've removed it from my systems and will not be reinstalling 
it. Ports that require pieces of it are fine but not gnome itself. (I'm 
content with that decission and I don't have any suggestions for fixing it 
other then a reminder of POLA as it applies to FreeBSD and the observation 
that any port that requires the rebuilding of a major percentage of 
installed ports is perhaps not considering the full ramifications of the 
decisions being made).