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From: Coert <lgroups@waagmeester.co.za>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: FreeBSD pkgng with multiple repositories
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:57:13 +0200
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Hello all,

Installed FreeBSD 10, and I saw that only one pkg repo is defined by default: 
pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest

I then wanted to install KDE, and saw it has no package in that latest repo.

After some googling I then added pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/release/0 
as an extra repo, and it worked.

Can I have both release and latest configured as repos at the same time? or 
will this cause problems down the line?

What is common/best practice in this scenario?
I read through the FreeBSD handbook on pkgng.

Kind regards,
Coert