Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:53:49 +0100 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: "Montgomery-Smith, Stephen" <stephen@missouri.edu>, "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: annoying pkg-fallout notices, how can I stop it? Message-ID: <532066ED.4070902@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <532065F8.2050309@missouri.edu> References: <6ff879398fc117ba3f43c90f88cc8347@vmeta.jp> <53205D35.3020600@marino.st> <20140312132753.GA98558@icepick.vmeta.jp> <532065F8.2050309@missouri.edu>
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On 3/12/2014 14:49, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote: > I am just going to ignore emails from pkg-fallout that have "-quarterly" > in their subject line. I don't really see the point of fixing the > stable branches, since I pressume they are just a snapshot of ports at > the time when the corresponding release of src came out. Well, the point is that anybody using the quarter branch is going to have a broken port indefinitely. Essentially you are saying, "I don't care about them, they should use the head". I won't say I disagree with you about that, though. John
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