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Alan Somers writes:

> For example, libifconfig and the /dev/cam/ctl ioctls are both unstable.
> A port that uses one of those and is built for FreeBSD 14.0 won't
> necessarily work for 14.1.

Isn't that also a problem today ?

What difference does it make that src is distributed as a package ?

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