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Subject: Re: Install of pkg fuse-ntfs fails because of undefined symbol in
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From: Franco Fichtner <franco@lastsummer.de>
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> On 9 Feb 2017, at 5:21 PM, Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> We provide backwards compatibility, not forwards compatibility.

But don't you see that users won't know this?

This is a good theory, yet it is difficult in practice because it is
not being enforced.


Cheers,
Franco