Thanks for the input on softdep. I read a lot on the pros and cons. This certainly pushes me in the "con" direction.
I forgot to mention that I am using 6.6 stable, not current, so the latest updates to softdep shouldn't be an issue. Dave Raymond On 1/8/20, Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: > On Jan 08 08:31:26, n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: >> Another place where softdeps will sometimes bite you is when you >> unpack tar balls that overwrite existing files -- simple thought >> process says, "as long as you have enough space to cover the growth, >> fine". Softdeps might surprise you. You may get an "out of disk >> space" error, and a minute later, see much more space than you >> thought you could ever need to accomplish the task, once the deletions >> have time to take effect. > > Another case of the same (imho) > is pkg_add -u when /usr/local is tight. > > -- David J. Raymond david.raym...@nmt.edu http://physics.nmt.edu/~raymond
