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As a FreeBSD user, the pkg/ports system is the biggest frustration I have. I run -current and update every few weeks (using zfs boot envs and beinstall and pk

As a FreeBSD user, the pkg/ports system is the biggest frustration I have. I run -current and update every few weeks (using zfs boot envs and beinstall and pkg upgrade). Every few months, there is some breaking change. Something suddenly wants to uninstall KDE, or cannot find a path forward, etc. I ran ubuntu for years and updated as- or more-frequently and never encountered these problems. Even updating from LTS to LTS was smoother. I think part of the difference is that ubuntu is a fixed release, while FreeBSD is a rolling release. I wish there was a fixed release of FreeBSD. The best I've been able to do is using -stable quarterly pkgs on FreeBSD-current. This way, I only get security updates except for 4 times a year..

yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
> I run -current and update every few weeks (using zfs boot envs and beinstall and pkg upgrade). Every few months, there is some breaking change. Well yeah, you're tracking unstable; you can't compare -current to an LTS.
- nix23 5y ago
  Quarterly is not LTS too, it's just 'slower'...but yeah one should compare 'latest' to Arch and not to LTS that's for sure.
nix23 5y ago
Absolutely agreeing with you, i was thinking about that too. Maybe something like OpenQA and much much more testing can solve it. It's really a bit of a pain, the System is stable like a rock, but that brings nothing if the ports/pkg ecosystem gets neglected (by the whole project not the porters....please don't get me wrong)