why 100 packages are evil

[Miroslav Lachman]

Gerrit Kühn wrote on 04/25/2016 07:48:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 18:52:32 +0100 Matthew Seaman <matthew at FreeBSD.org>
> wrote about Re: why 100 packages are evil:
>
> MS> > Is freebsd-update going away as result of the new packaging ?
>
>> Yes.  It will be replaced by 'pkg upgrade' -- as far as I know, that's
>> the plan for 11.0-RELEASE.
>
> Hm... I never had any troubles with freebsd-update, it always "just
> worked" for me. OTOH, I remember having several issues with pkg, requiring
> to fix databases manually and so on.

I had many issues with freebsd-update in the past so the last year I 
converted all machines back to "installkernel & installworld" from NFS 
mounted build server. It is faster and predictable than freebsd-update 
(in my case).
I hope that pkg upgrade will be good replacement one day. But I don't 
think it is good enough right now.

Miroslav Lachman