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Date:      Fri, 8 Aug 2025 07:12:55 +0200
From:      Bane Ivosev <bane.ivosev@pmf.uns.ac.rs>
To:        Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info>, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
Cc:        vermaden <vermaden@interia.pl>, Sulev-Madis Silber <freebsd-current-freebsd-org111@ketas.si.pri.ee>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PKGBASE Removes FreeBSD Base System Feature
Message-ID:  <3549941b-240f-471e-a2da-95b0f3766282@pmf.uns.ac.rs>
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On 8/7/2025 10:17 PM, Colin Percival wrote:
> I would like this idea, except for one wrinkle: I don't think it would work.
> In particular, packages installed from ports might depend on packages from
> the base system, so having a single tool which knows about both is necessary.

As someone already said "that was THE thing", clear separation for OS 
and ports. The fact that the FreeBSD release engineering lead is 
thinking along these lines, to me, is ... scary.


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