[geeks] Whoo hoo... now this is a nice Linux

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:

> make world rebuilds the whole source tree of the distribution, but
> AFAIK NOT the ports tree.   Could be wrong on that though...

You're right.  I don't know offhand of an easy way to rebuild -all- the
ports.  You can, of course, fetch a new copy of the ports tree via the
usual 'cvs update -P'.

> I think that's a big break between the mindsets... Linux distributions
> generally can't regenerate themselves with one command like a BSD,
> but I suspect part of that now is the sheer scope the distributions
> have chosen to encompass...

Precisely.  You can get a useful BSD install from the CD in well under
100MB.  In fact, the last full install (I can't remember if I installed
X11 or not) I did was well under 500MB.  The downside to this is that
programs that aren't part of the OS tend to lag quite a bit more between
updates.  However, the system itself stays -very- current, especially
with regards to security updates.

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                   *)  did in 1988."                    --George Adkins