> # pkg_info | wc -l > 457 > # > > And this machine is even my package-building station! > > Anyway, portupgrade -af took 45 minutes. *g* > Well, it's a dedicated blade after all :) And those 8 cores seem pretty nasty, I'm envious.
That 800+ installed ports are for a regular desktop system, CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) 8450 Triple-Core Processor (2109.74-MHz 686-class CPU) Cores per package: 3 just things like xul/firefox, or webkit alone take an hour to build. Think of "2 to 3 days" to recompile everything from scratch. And that's only for a Gnome desktop setup, throw in another KDE environment to the mix and their family of applications and you can round that to a week (maybe slightly less if you leave the machine running completely dedicated). While your blade would cut that time down considerably, it still wouldn't be in minutes anymore :) m. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
