How often portupgrades?

[Vizion]

On Sunday 04 December 2005 03:41,  the author Kiffin Gish contributed to the 
dialogue on-
 Re: How often portupgrades?: 

>On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 17:51 -0800, Vizion wrote:
>> On Saturday 24 December 2005 11:29,  the author Kiffin Gish contributed to
>> the dialogue on-
>>
>>  How often portupgrades?:
>> >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.
>>
>> You pays yr processing time and makes yr choice :-)
>>
>> I have been using freebsd for quite a long time and I find that sometimes
>> I am constantly upgrading a machine which is being used for development
>> something and then when I just need systems to carry on doing the same
>> thing day after day I get into the if it aint broke dont fix it mode! Then
>> a new
>> application/need comes along and the cycle starts over again!
>>
>> david
>
>Then one seriously wonders what the benefit is of upgraded more than
>once every few months or so.

When I am developing I need system to check against the very latest (which 
means portupgrading daily) and to be able step backwards as well.

When I am not developing then I am happy to cruise.

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