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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Berkeley DB 4.1
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:57:06PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Ivan Voras, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> And while the argument seems valid, it also doesn't have an estimate
> of which / how many ports will break with a more recent bdb.

FWIW, I've manually pushed all the systems I've managed to higher
versions than 4.2 for years.  I remember having 4.6 around a lot.  In
a quick look around now, I see 4.8 on everything but one system that's
running 4.7, servers and a couple workstations.  I can't recall _ever_
seeing a breakage.


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