From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 3 22:20:42 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78D417B8 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2012 22:20:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lumiwa@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-f182.google.com (mail-ie0-f182.google.com [209.85.223.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 384788FC15 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2012 22:20:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f182.google.com with SMTP id k10so8492970iea.13 for ; Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:20:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:cc :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=lA99+4KUkm5LgUVwm6bxqV7LiLRcSHy6kIyspROTPLs=; b=xXbV0D96cBO/WM0V3VHHKp0lvx87R9SvHyUoSoOu+9bqate0E+AOtKfKEf8SWmILmh 7htCcvUfBvJdD+WWDckGWDjh0pMdFmx2E1X6URlGd/tvNy52PmQwfIK6DNoQFj6nb2RP 9pRIIIbccj36bvSeTQmqDu5WUZqiq93TM8vTLhBbqfA9zHch4lrwZ/8jZX4rSaqJr0it WuaQ2uTqnLd6wtm5TO8ClqbyMcu5UYWS+OpAMHBNl1j+aBTNurj8d2Z37wTFWzBlW/dF XfhWCww0jL/+KbUkFeP8qD9pm6ZAIP2bVjNVBIvxqSyxhbt++q99JhEDU4SgceWhbIvQ VwfQ== Received: by 10.50.33.194 with SMTP id t2mr5547954igi.69.1351981236188; Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:20:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from luna.wi.rr.com (cpe-184-58-138-79.wi.res.rr.com. [184.58.138.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm2346919igh.0.2012.11.03.15.20.35 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:20:35 -0700 (PDT) From: ajtiM To: Polytropon Subject: Re: before new version Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 17:20:26 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/9.1-RC3; KDE/4.8.4; i386; ; ) References: <201211031123.12664.lumiwa@gmail.com> <201211031225.12632.lumiwa@gmail.com> <20121103201122.bfcc917e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20121103201122.bfcc917e.freebsd@edvax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201211031720.27182.lumiwa@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 22:20:42 -0000 On Saturday 03 November 2012 14:11:22 you wrote: > > BTW: packages are almost all the time outdated. > > The packages in the RELEASE directory and on the installation > media meet the frozen ports tree (frozen _prior_ to the release > date), so yes, they are a bit outdated, but they are considered > "mostly stable and usable" when in use with what is distributed. > On the server, both _those_ packages _and_ those in Latest/ (which > are periodically built from the "advancing" ports tree after the > release date) are often considered not _that_ current as if you > would use CVS or SVN to obtain the "bleeding edge" latest ports > tree and build from source. > I didn't complain about "bleeding edge" sofware which we anywhere don't have (Gimp, Xorg, LibreOffice and all dependencies for those applications and more and more which I don't use and I don't need) but I complain about freezing ports too early before new release came out and after that rebuilt 5000 ports for example just because png new version is coming out. Or am I wrong? > So yes, you could say what you said. :-) Mitja -------- http://www.redbubble.com/people/lumiwa