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Alan Somers writes:
> On Sun, Aug 4, 2024 at 12:00=3DE2=3D80=3DAFPM Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk=
.freebsd.dk> wrote:

> If it weren't for my experience with CTL, I would say no.

> But CTL stuff _cannot_ exist in the ports tree, since the ioctl interfac=
e is unstable.
> Similarly, stuff like the fusefs test suite can't exist in the ports tre=
e, either.
> It needs to be updated in lock-step with even minor kernel changes.

How is that different from any other dependency management in ports ?

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