How often portupgrades?

[Joerg Pernfuss]

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:29:41 +0100
"Kiffin Gish" <kiffin.gish at planet.nl> wrote:

> Just wondering what a good rule of thumb is in how often to run
> portupgrades.
> 
> I figure that once a week should be sufficient, however each time it
> runs it can take up to a few hours to complete which seems like an
> unnecessary hassle to me. Once it even started rebuilding the
> complete gnome port which took a couple days!
> 
> Is this worthwhile? What are the benefits?
> 
> Thanks alot in advance.

Everybody has to figure out that one for himself, so, here is my
rule of thumb:

	Upgrade your ports only when you need to.

If all installed ports work fine and a new version doesn't introduce
some functionality you simply need to have, why update?
Just for the sake of updateing?


	Joerg
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