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Cc: Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports
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on 13/01/2012 12:19 Doug Barton said the following:
> On 01/13/2012 02:06, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
>> Why can't it be that only shared libraries should be bumped, but no
>> kernel incompatible changes were introduced?
> 
> Because one of the reasons we have major branches is so that we can
> change the various API/KPI/etc. in the newer branch.

Are you saying that every major branch _has_ to introduce incompatibilities into
a at least one system call?
Otherwise, you are answering a question different from what Volodymyr asked :)

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Andriy Gapon