/usr/ports & portupgrade when only using packages

[Adam J Richardson]

Mel wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 September 2007 20:34:56 Adam J Richardson wrote:
> 
>> Well, that's easy...
>>
>> # rm -R /usr/ports
>>
>> Saves you a load of disk space, too. The only downside is you get
>> slightly older versions of software with packages.
>>
>> Oh, and don't use portsnap, it'll undo that "rm -R" for you. Using
>> "portupgrade -PP" works perfectly well on those rare occasions when I
>> want to install a package rather than a port.
> 
> I'm really interested in seeing the output of portupgrade -PP after 
> rm -R /usr/ports && mkdir /usr/ports.

Yes, that might be interesting. I've never tried it.

I wonder though, is portupgrade the tool for this? Would not "pkg_add -r 
whatever" be more appropriate?

HtH,
Adam J Richardson