I'm moving to a straight Freebsd 7.1 system after using PC-BSD for a year. Question, once I install 7.1 from the installation disks (in progress as we speak) could I do a "rm -rf" on the /usr/ports tree (I requested one on sysinstall) and do a fresh "portsnap fetch extract upgrade" before I do anything else ? - or should I start with the ports tree that was installed from the disks.
My initial requirements for the system will be:
- window manager (xmonad)
- Firefox3 (don't need flash, but probably will install the flash9 emulator in case)
- emacs
- ghc compiler
- nvidia driver + openGL
- cdrom burning for backup
Does portsnap give me a ports tree which is based on ports of software on 7.1 release freebsd codebase ? I am looking for reliability and I want to minimize a lot of maintenance fixing dependencies with port upgrades and the likes.
Thanks
My initial requirements for the system will be:
- window manager (xmonad)
- Firefox3 (don't need flash, but probably will install the flash9 emulator in case)
- emacs
- ghc compiler
- nvidia driver + openGL
- cdrom burning for backup
Does portsnap give me a ports tree which is based on ports of software on 7.1 release freebsd codebase ? I am looking for reliability and I want to minimize a lot of maintenance fixing dependencies with port upgrades and the likes.
Thanks