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Date:      Wed, 3 Dec 2008 03:43:06 +1100
From:      andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>
To:        Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
Cc:        Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Javier Vasquez <jevv.cr@gmail.com>, andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>
Subject:   Re: [freebsd-questions] Looking @ upgrades mechanisms...
Message-ID:  <20081202164306.GA3341@ozzmosis.com>
In-Reply-To: <200812021722.54517.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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On Tue 2008-12-02 17:22:53 UTC+0100, Mel (fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) wrote:

> > Yes, this happens.  -PP is not ideal for regular updates but it's
> > still useful for when you have a new FreeBSD install with no packages
> > installed, and want to get up and running quickly, grabbing the most
> > recent binaries of all your favourite ports instead of building them
> > all from source.
> 
> That's infinitely slower than pkg_add -r <list of leaves>.

Hmm.  Yes.  I'm trying to remember why I did not like pkg_add -r.

On the other hand I may be imagining any preference I had towards
portupgrade -PP.

Sorry :)



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