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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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