Le 22/05/2006 11:43, Michel Talon a ?crit: > > OpenBSD doesn't have next to 15000 ports. In my opinion, this richness is > one of the main assets of FreeBSD, and by necessity implies a great difficulty > to maintain everything in a coherent and secure state. You have only to > contemplate the years it took to release Debian Sarge to convince yourself. > Personnally i am quite pleased with the present state of the FreeBSD ports, > i think it is in a much better state than a couple of years before, and > for my own use, security is a very secondary issue. People who have machines > exposed on the internet usually have a small number of ports installed, and > can maintain them in the latest secure version. I have around 600 ports > installed on my 6.1 machine, which will certainly grow in time, and no > intention whatsoever to run portupgrade on that.
I completely agree with Michel. The question that I think is missing from the survey is the usage you do of your freebsd installation. All production servers I have (50) use few ports and upgrades (security related or not) are always done by hand. On the other side, I nearly always use precompiled packages on my workstation to save compile time and dependencies headaches. -- Herve Boulouis _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
