On Tuesday 21 July 2009 5:52:01 pm Steve Kargl wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:45:36PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > > > > I have another box (of many) running FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2/amd64 with 2 GB > > RAM and a Athlon64 2,2GHz CPU having 800(!) ports installed. Can you > > imagine how long this box will be occupied by 'portupgrade -af'? I guess > > 'cherry-picking' is the only solution. > > How many of those 800 ports are actually necessary and used? > It would be better to get generate a complete list of your > installed ports, use pkg_deinstall or pkg_delete to remove > all ports, and then selectively re-install ports that are > actually used.
Xorg takes up ~200 ports alone (not including dependencies like perl, etc.) since the Xorg decided release engineering was too hard. Throw in things like KDE, OOo, Firefox, etc. for a desktop and you can get a fairly high package count. :-/ -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
