Re: Using ports and updates to the release

On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 09:12:13PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
> Ed Gray wrote on Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 07:21:32PM +0100:
>
> > I'm still fairly new to openbsd and the idea of using ports
> > in general rather than binary packages.
>
> You are usually better off using packages than using ports,
> especially as a new user.
>
> Even as an experienced user doing lots of development and minor
> amounts of ports development, i use packages most of the time.

As one of the persons *responsible* for keeping the ports system
working, I do use packages all the time.

Ports are on my development setup.

The machine I write this mail from uses packages,
with about 3 ports that are just there because not committed yet.