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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
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Subject: Re: Ports upgrade ....
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:46:22 -0400
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"William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> writes:

> It brought down almost 14K updates for 3-ish weeks .... I know the
> ports effort is a feverish hive of productivity, but that sounded a
> bit high :-) .... Is that number anomalous, maybe coincident w/ new
> quarter, something else ? More question than problem, but curious. TIA
> & have a good one.

If you're switching from one quarterly branch to the next, then sure,
you've pretty much got three months worth of updates at once.