Hi Walt, walt wrote on Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 05:05:48PM -0700: > Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> Compiling xenocara itself was not difficult, but after that, >> manually recompiling all the ports depending on it was a huge >> amount of work... > Yes, I wish the port update process could be a bit more automated. Hmmm, that's not what i wanted to say. What you need in everyday life is the *package* update process, and pkg_add -ui is already quite good. My argument was intended to say "don't compile many ports from source unless you must, use packages instead, that's easier". Even when you are actively working on -current ports, recompiling many ports at once is rarely needed - Matthieu & Todd are not inventing new xenocaras every second week ;-). Most of the time, just update the bulk of your packages via pkg_add -ui from the snapshot mirrors. You only need to compile those ports from source which you are actively working on. And, of course, sometimes things like libtool when they are being tweaked - but those devel/ beasts are typically painless and quick to compile. Yours, Ingo
