Comment Re:Why can't they use BSD's system (Score 2, Informative) 164
>You need to emerge rsync quite a few times
> during a new install to ensure you are using
> the latest version of portage.
I'd have to disagree here. Unless your 'emerge world' takes more than a week, it isn't likely that there will be new ebuilds out. And even in that case, it is probably a matter of a new revision of an ebuild, rather than a new version of the software.
>Under /etc/defaults/make.conf you can specify
> which mirrors to use for popular ports or you
> can type in the closest FreeBSD ftp site and
> over-ride it for the fastest download speed.
I don't know when the last time you used portage was, but you _can_ specify mirrors to use in /etc/make.conf . Furthermore, there is a script called mirrorselect ('emerge mirrorselect'), which makes finding the fastest mirrors and updating make.conf, all automatically, even easier.
> during a new install to ensure you are using
> the latest version of portage.
I'd have to disagree here. Unless your 'emerge world' takes more than a week, it isn't likely that there will be new ebuilds out. And even in that case, it is probably a matter of a new revision of an ebuild, rather than a new version of the software.
>Under
> which mirrors to use for popular ports or you
> can type in the closest FreeBSD ftp site and
> over-ride it for the fastest download speed.
I don't know when the last time you used portage was, but you _can_ specify mirrors to use in
