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Date:      Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:11:13 -0700
From:      "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        juha@saarinen.org, joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20010626141113.C9911@freeway.dcfinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010624023403R.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@osd.bsdi.com on Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 02:34:03AM -0700
References:  <15157.11221.593513.478892@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <00cf01c0fc40$c0348db0$0a01a8c0@den2> <20010624023403R.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>

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On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 02:34:03AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> As I said at the beginning, perhaps it's time to simply re-write the
> Handbook paragraph which inadvertently "sells" -stable as a solution
> for certain types of problems it was never meant to solve.

Yes, the handbook paragraph was clearly written to suggest that if
you run a production machine you should track -STABLE **in leiu of
-CURRENT**, not as a general rule.  That is, if you chose to track
anything at all, it should be -STABLE.

That should be easy to clarify.

> - Jordan

	-crl
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