Lars Hansson wrote:

No, packages has a better method.

Since you are up-to-date, please share with me: which ?

"make install" for a port will not update an already installed port.
True. "make clean" won't neither. But "make update" does. Surprised ?

If you cant figure that out by yourself maybe OpenBSD is not for you.

"If you don't know from your first day on this system what you do, better move elsewhere." ??

will need X even on a non-X system to satisfy dependencies." in the
Installation-FAQ will remedy the situation for newcomers proactively.
Something along the lines of "In case you want to use ports later, you


Except that you dont need X to build ports. You only need it for ports that is using X.
Fine. Then add "In case you want to use ports later, be aware that for some the dependencies resolve to X. Except of space, there is no harm installing 'all'."

Uwe

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