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From: "Robert Backhaus" <robbak@gmail.com>
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On 5/22/06, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> If you administrate system(s) running FreeBSD (in the broad sense of "are
> responsible for keeping system(s) secure and up to date"), please visit
>  http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/survey.html
> and complete the survey below before May 31st, 2006.
>

One of those "Missing Option" messages: Whether valid or not, the
reason that I would avoid a binary update system is that I customise
CPUTYPE, and believe, rightly or wrongly, that this would make binary
updating impossible.

Of course, the main reason I would not use binary updating you/they
have made source updating so easy!