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Re: [Sheflug] BSD Question

Netsonic wrote:

Thanks Jonathan,

I'll give this a go when I get chance.

Good luck!


It makes we wonder about the benefits of installing the absolute minimal
system and then going from there.

No hassles with upgrading/updating, for a while at least.
That's what I always do.

Minimal install, src installation, ports installation, install cvsup-without-gui, update src and ports, make world then the install.

This also allows you to use perl 5.8 instead of the still default 5.0. There are some very strange dependencies - apache seems to need perl.

I did actually try a minimal install the other day, with the intention of
compiling xfree from source, but the compile failed miserably with too many
errors.
Feel free to contact me with any problems. I normally find the problems are due to a ports collection that needs updating or only partial updates to the cvs tree.

Regards,

Jonathan

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