What's the first port you compile on a slow machine?

cracauer@

cracauer@

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Situation: slow machine. Ports but no packages. Getting any software takes a long time.

What's the first thing you install?

For me I discovered it is tmux. I use it to then hold the session to compile more, and to be able to re-attach from different ssh logins.
 
After filesystem corruption i stopped using ccache.
I though use a poudriere blacklist file for the very big packages like electron,chromium.
 
Same thing I install first as with pkg:
vim, to have a reasonable editor to edit/create all the files needed for setting up a system.
 
I don't compile ports on very slow machine. It's a waste of time and sometimes impossible as there's not enough memory for ports like llvm/rust. It's much faster to compile them on another server with synth and then publish them as custom repository so i can install them as pkgs on this slow machine.
 
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