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Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?
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Hi!

> The point he made was actually not a matter of people not reading
> UPDATING but that UPDATING is oftentimes not updated until after
> the disruptive/potentially dangerous change has already hit the
> ports tree.
> 
> I'm not sure what the solution is for the end user.

We have our reference hosts, do daily portupgrades and on those days
where all looks fine, pkg_create the whole collection and pkg_delete/pkg_add
to production hosts.

Still not perfect, but 'good enough'.

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