From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 30 16:35:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 65FAE37B623 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 16:35:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 57961 invoked by uid 100); 30 May 2001 23:35:22 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15125.33722.68387.664145@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 18:35:22 -0500 To: Bill Moran Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Subject: Re: upgrades [each time more trouble] In-Reply-To: <42427999@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Moran types: > > These and further [formerly not encountered] complications may > > have their reasons and justifications. - What I, and certainly > > some other average users, primarily notice is that FreeBSD > > installation and upgrading is becoming each time less handy. > I'll have to say that I haven't noticed that myself. It's been my > experience that the quality and usability of the system continues to > improve with each new version. I've noticed two different things. One is that upgrading FreeBSD proper has gotten easier. The introduction of mergemaster was a major step forward. The other is that I'm spending more effort upgrading ports. The port upgrade process isn't really controlled by FreeBSD, but by the authors of the ported software. Which means it hasn't really changed much. But the number of ports I've got installed has gone up noticably over the last few years. The net result is more work upgrading ports. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message