The latest roundup of ports upgrades is definitely crazy: a very lot of updated packages need a COMPLETE rebuild of all of his dependencies (-r swtiches in poor bulding tools), and this honest do not make sense.
It means: every single user using FreeBSD for production use and not as an alternative to play Angry Birds (read loose time), will need hours and hours of build time if he want to reasonably update his system. And this is simply not acceptable and even do not make sense.
Personally, considering nothing is moving, I migrated many of my machines under free Solaris 11 and I'm very happy about the move. I moved the FreeBSD homes after installing the OS, like two hours and the system was totally fine and running and updated.
Acting like this, FreeBSD put itself in a ghetto. Actually the upgrade system is totally out of the real world. I will still use it for some appliances, then it is no more the first choice for me and my customers considering now Oracle Solaris 11 is free and binary updates are dispatched when needed like in any rolling release and they are very easy and fast to install like in any modern OS should be.
Bye bye again FreeBSD, it never was that good.
It means: every single user using FreeBSD for production use and not as an alternative to play Angry Birds (read loose time), will need hours and hours of build time if he want to reasonably update his system. And this is simply not acceptable and even do not make sense.
Personally, considering nothing is moving, I migrated many of my machines under free Solaris 11 and I'm very happy about the move. I moved the FreeBSD homes after installing the OS, like two hours and the system was totally fine and running and updated.
Acting like this, FreeBSD put itself in a ghetto. Actually the upgrade system is totally out of the real world. I will still use it for some appliances, then it is no more the first choice for me and my customers considering now Oracle Solaris 11 is free and binary updates are dispatched when needed like in any rolling release and they are very easy and fast to install like in any modern OS should be.
Bye bye again FreeBSD, it never was that good.