Michel Talon wrote: > Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >> >> >> I have had very good luck with portupgrade, on multiple freebsd >> systems on multiple platforms. I do avoid the biggies like KDE >> or Gnome, which obviously helps. >> > > Since half the ports i have on my machine, if not 3/4 require one or > the other of Gnome libraries, using portupgrade and avoiding Gnome > seems to me a contradictory position. Of course if you limit yourself > to some simple ports, with very limited dependencies, then i have no > problem beleiving portupgrade works for you. At least portupgrade > minimally avoids some breakage by keeping old libraries under compat
In that case I should note that I only used FreeBSD as server, ever. So usually it wouldnt even have X on it. To be fair, some PHP modules create quite a dependency fest albeit it nowhere near what Gnome (KDE user here, not much difference in size but KDE seems more sanely organized) would create.
