On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:15:56PM +0000, RW wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:04:07 -0700 > Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 09:43:16PM +0000, RW wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:00:55 -0500 > > > Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I've already deleted the message that kicked me off, but it > > > > looked to me that you were talking about the 10,000 ports I was > > > > talking about, and that meant you were referring to new installs, > > > > not upgrades. > > > > > > Why would anyone want to configure ports they don't want to > > > install? > > > > I've been following this discussion without participating, but I have > > a question: > > > > How does that question follow from the preceding, quoted statement? > > > > I assumed that he meant all ports, 10,000 is of the same order of > magnitude as the total number of ports (27000), but an absurdly high > figure for a real system. > > Actually the total number of ports in the entire tree that support > options is only 1447. And out of 821 ports installed on my KDE desktop > machine only 140 do. > > The idea that anyone ever has to configure 10,000 ports is nonsense.
Ah, thank you. Somehow, I missed that implication (even though I personally have far, far fewer ports installed on this machine than 10k, too). -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Amazon.com interview candidate: "When C++ is your hammer, everything starts to look like your thumb." _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
