On 2/3/06, Stijn Hoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:53:01AM +0100, Björn König wrote: > > Garrett Cooper schrieb: > > > Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), there > > > should be a noticeable difference. > > > > The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more time to compile > > all in all because of its modularity. A German magazine tested both: 6.9 > > took 19 minutes and 7.0 75 minutes on their dual Opteron 246 machine > > with 2 GB RAM (source: iX 1/2006). > > Heh :-) > > But the advantage *should* be that you don't need to recompile all of > that every major upgrade. I don't know what will become of that ideal > though, only time will tell I guess. >
That's the one of the thing I hate about big ports. You build say X.org 6.8.0, next week it's X.org 6.8.0_1 arrgg! Don't get me started with KDE! _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
