Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 08:04:57 +1000 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> To: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports and Packages Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1804210759290.767@aneurin.horsfall.org> In-Reply-To: <66599a00-1202-91bf-f576-5a6675e94fb8@cloudzeeland.nl> References: <66599a00-1202-91bf-f576-5a6675e94fb8@cloudzeeland.nl>
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > Due to a mistake (...) I now got a mix of ports and packages on my BSD > system. What mistake? > Can someone advise how to savely switch to packages only on this live > system? Why? I run both ports and packages (the latter when I discovered that Ruby blew away my swap/tmp) with no problems. I prefer to use ports because that way I get to specify the options that I want (as opposed to generic ones which may not apply to me), but I'll use the package when someone assumes that I have both terabytes and gigahertz to burn... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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