Re: bxpkg - a new way to deal with binary upgrades.

2011-02-21 Thread Jason Helfman
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 05:22:08PM +, Kostas Petrikas thus spake: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Jason Helfman jhelf...@e-e.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:04:35PM +, Kostas Petrikas thus spake: Hello! In the past I had troubles with upgrading 3rd party software on desktop

Re: bxpkg - a new way to deal with binary upgrades.

2011-02-20 Thread Kostas Petrikas
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Jason Helfman jhelf...@e-e.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:04:35PM +, Kostas Petrikas thus spake: Hello! In the past I had troubles with upgrading 3rd party software on desktop PCs as usually desktop environments have a quite big list of packages

bxpkg - a new way to deal with binary upgrades.

2011-02-19 Thread Kostas Petrikas
Hello! In the past I had troubles with upgrading 3rd party software on desktop PCs as usually desktop environments have a quite big list of packages installed. Upgrading or even installing from ports could take a lot of time specially on slower laptops (can take days). While FreeBSD provides

Re: bxpkg - a new way to deal with binary upgrades.

2011-02-19 Thread Jason Helfman
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:04:35PM +, Kostas Petrikas thus spake: Hello! In the past I had troubles with upgrading 3rd party software on desktop PCs as usually desktop environments have a quite big list of packages installed. Upgrading or even installing from ports could take a lot of time