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Old 27th May 2008
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Originally Posted by phoenix View Post
Don't use one supfile for everything. Separate docs, source, www, and ports into their own supfiles (I like to name them /etc/supfile.source, /etc/supfile.docs, and so on).
While I understand the sentiment, I've used a combined file for many, many years. The reason is simple: when I do system maintenance, I do all of it. So that means kernel/world updates, port updates and so forth. It has rarely gotten me into trouble.
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