upgrading all ports

Kirk Strauser kirk at strauser.com
Sat Jun 25 17:15:47 GMT 2005


On Saturday 25 June 2005 06:36 am, Erik Nørgaard wrote:

> It is much faster to deinstall everything and then installing from
> ground up. And it is far more secure in not screwing up.

On toy systems, maybe.  I've got 654 ports installed on the machine I'm typing 
this on, and I assure you that it's much, much faster to selectively upgrade 
a few of them rather than starting over from scratch.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
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