On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 05:34:03PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > I have used (and still do) both flavors of the above and I have to tell > > y, updating the installed apps is as easy as apt-get update ot yum > > update/upgrade. > > . . . except when they break something. It's a lot easier to fix broken > software on FreeBSD than with a binary packaged based Linux distribution, > in my (recent) experience.
I rarely see port breakage. If I do it's usually a case of PEBKAC, :-) Having said that, switching between major versions of FreeBSD can be a hassle with ports. > > I used to love spending my Friday nights updating my FreeBSD ports - > > then, as you are finding out - it's just getting tedious. > > I've never found updating the software on a system "fun". That's part of > the reason I find I prefer FreeBSD: it doesn't break shit as often, and > thus doesn't make it even *more* un-fun. In my experience it is much easier to keep ports updated every other week or so than to to it after a couple of months. Only when switching between major versions of FreeBSD it is time for drastic measures. I usually delete and reinstall all ports after making such a switch. It is the best way to keep the amount of old cruft on the system to a minimum. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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