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Why does the AUTOCONFxxx change the suffix between Freebsd releases?
In 6.2 it was called AUTOCONF259 in 7.0 its called AUTOCONF261.
Is this not a violation of the naming convention?
The ports names are not suppose to carry the version number as part of its
name.