How often portupgrades?

[Kiffin Gish]

On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 17:51 -0800, Vizion wrote:
> On Saturday 24 December 2005 11:29,  the author Kiffin Gish contributed to the 
> dialogue on-
>  How often portupgrades?: 
> 
> >Just wondering what a good rule of thumb is in how often to run
> > portupgrades.
> >
> >I figure that once a week should be sufficient, however each time it runs it
> > can take up to a few hours to complete which seems like an unnecessary
> > hassle to me. Once it even started rebuilding the complete gnome port which
> > took a couple days!
> >
> >Is this worthwhile? What are the benefits?
> >
> >Thanks alot in advance.
> >
> You pays yr processing time and makes yr choice :-)
> 
> I have been using freebsd for quite a long time and I find that sometimes I am 
> constantly upgrading a machine which is being used for development something 
> and then when I just need systems to carry on doing the same thing day after 
> day I get into the if it aint broke dont fix it mode! Then a new 
> application/need comes along and the cycle starts over again!
> 
> david
> 

Then one seriously wonders what the benefit is of upgraded more than
once every few months or so.

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Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish at planet.nl>