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On Jun 4, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:

> If you're asking why I don't turn a production environment over to  
> being a freebsd-unstable-testbed, I can't really answer that  
> question in a way you'd understand (if you were asking that question)

If you don't have an identical setup to test new software, then you're  
pretty much not able to ever upgrade anything, IMO, and your  
"production" environment *is* a testbed for new software.