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David Wood <david@wood2.org.uk> wrote:

> It's your choice, but from a security perspective, this worries me.
>
> You will have applications you are using linked against FreeBSD 
> libraries that no longer have any FreeBSD security team support.

[skip]

The definite need to keep the system secure is another and distinct
matter from the need of binary backwards compatibility for userland.
In no way the former cancels the latter.

Eugene Grosbein