Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

[Uwe Grohnwaldt]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:46:34 +0200
Rico Secada <coolzone at io.dk> wrote:

> Hi All.
> 
> I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers
> for about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! But keeping
> third party ports/packages updated is just to timeconsuming IMHO.
> 
> Building everything from ports is ok, on a quick machine, but even on
> a quick machine building KDE takes a LOT of time. Waiting until the
> stable packages are ready takes about 2 - 3 weeks, and until then, a
> lot of other stuff needs to be updated. 
> 
> Compared to Debian GNU/Linux's "apt-get update && apt-get dist
> upgrade" command, OR OpenBSD's "pkg-add -u"
> 
> >From OpenBSD's man page for "pkg_add": 
> 
>      -u       Update the given pkgname(s), and anything it depends
> upon.  If no pkgname is given, pkg_add will update all installed
> packages. This relies on PKG_PATH to figure out the new package names.
> 
> I really think it is time for FreeBSD to make it more easy to update
> binary packages, like on OpenBSD. 
> 
> Best and kind regards,
> Rico

Hi Rico,
some weeks ago, there was a thread on the ports-ml about a script
called pkgupgrade. you can get it here:

http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/

i hope this is what you're looking for. i'm using ports so i don't know
more about this script :)

- Uwe