Re: [tlug] BSD: Ports or Packages?

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Doug McLean wrote:
> This was my assumption as well.  Ports, though time-consuming to
> compile, seems to have one notable advantage in that you can install
> the latest patches, for 0-day exploits and other problems.  So I was a
> bit surprised by OpenBSD's comments, and wanted to get a
> second-opinion.  :)
>
> On the other hand, I was thinking about this, and was concerned about
> potential resource issues if the hosts are not that robust.  I take it
> that you guys have not had such issues, right?
>   

I have no experience with any BSD's but I use Gentoo on most of my
machines.  I get around the resource issue on memory starved devices by
compiling over NFS[1].

Edward

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