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Cc: Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>
Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?
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Hi,

On 02 June 2012 PM 9:50:22 Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> 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'.
> 
> 
isn't this what I just suggested to be done by the team? Give the ports tree a new version number and people can fall back to this then.

Isn't this solution too simple to be done?

Erich