06-27-2013
Is it bad to Install the Whole Repository?
Hey Guys,
This week I installed Solaris for the first time, (trying to fix my ZFS array with some movies on it) and I noticed that unlike Linux or FreeBSD, their package management application almost encourages installing whole categories of software at a time. Theirs even a keyboard shortcut for selecting a category - like "Drivers" or "Web Services." It got me thinking, is there any harm in just installing an entire repository like that? Disk space & bandwidth aren't so scarce in most cases to make the few tens of gig's matter and it can be such a pain to have to install a new utility or library every 4 minutes when changing things up . . . . And also, if one installed everything beforehand, they wouldn't have worry about installation troubles on a tool or such during a downtime.
Now granted . . . Solaris has at most 1/10th the packages as FreeBSD or Mint . . . . but it's till something to think about. Who doesn't want three versions of every every slideshow application ever written AND the braille typesetting tools in 40 languages on the same laptop? Well. I'm gonna give it a try and see anyhow.
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SADE(8) BSD System Manager's Manual SADE(8)
NAME
sade -- sysadmins disk editor
SYNOPSIS
sade
DESCRIPTION
The sade utility is used for various disk administration tasks on FreeBSD systems.
It is generally invoked without arguments for the default behavior, where the main menu is presented.
NOTES
The sade utility aims to provide a handy tool for disk management tasks on an already installed system. The goal is to provide the same text
interface for disk management in bsdinstall(8) in the post-installation environment.
SEE ALSO
bsdinstall(8), gpart(8)
HISTORY
A program called sade first appeared in FreeBSD 6.3 as a utility encapsulating features from the sysinstall(8) installer. It was replaced in
FreeBSD 10.0 with the equivalent part of bsdinstall(8).
AUTHORS
Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org>
BUGS
The utility misses a lot of nice features, such as tools for manipulating gmirror(8). These will be added later.
BSD
December 30, 2012 BSD