While I'm not as up on FreeBSD, OpenBSD's package management has really improved over a year or so ago - I run snapshots on my desktop, updating the whole sheba

While I'm not as up on FreeBSD, OpenBSD's package management has really improved over a year or so ago - I run snapshots on my desktop, updating the whole shebang every week or two, and "sudo pkg_add -ui -F update -F updatedepends" just updates everything* via binary packages. It updates as smoothly as Debian. Also, in 7 years, I've never had package updates break things on OpenBSD (aside from config file formats changing or postgres database transfers, with warnings at update). That happened to me a couple times with Debian (around woody). * except for my ports that haven't made it upstream yet.