From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 7 01:03:15 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 251B716A405 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 01:03:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darren@nighttide.net) Received: from olmec.nighttide.net (jasper.nighttide.net [207.5.141.146]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC11513C48E for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 01:03:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darren@nighttide.net) Received: from olmec.nighttide.net (darren@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olmec.nighttide.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l170mSPL089498; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 19:48:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darren@nighttide.net) Received: from localhost (darren@localhost) by olmec.nighttide.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) with ESMTP id l170mSiL089495; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 19:48:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darren@nighttide.net) X-Authentication-Warning: olmec.nighttide.net: darren owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 19:48:28 -0500 (EST) From: Darren Henderson To: Kevin Kinsey In-Reply-To: <45C8CB7B.5090200@daleco.biz> Message-ID: <20070206192957.P89338@olmec> References: <45C8CB7B.5090200@daleco.biz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Productivity with FBSD, or: "portupgrade" vs. virus scans.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:03:15 -0000 On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > How do you keep up with ports? You don't have to keep up with them. Do you upgrade every application you have on your windows box every other thing? If you decide to keep current on ports do it frequently rather then waiting for months. Do not install gnome. > *Do you have (or have you, at some time, had) much trouble? The only time I've had significant issues is when full gnome upgrades appear - I could go on for pages about the pain these cause. Thanks to the recent update I've removed it from my systems and will not be reinstalling it. Ports that require pieces of it are fine but not gnome itself. (I'm content with that decission and I don't have any suggestions for fixing it other then a reminder of POLA as it applies to FreeBSD and the observation that any port that requires the rebuilding of a major percentage of installed ports is perhaps not considering the full ramifications of the decisions being made).