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Date:      Tue, 3 Sep 2024 14:19:02 -0600
From:      Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: It's not Rust, it's FreeBSD (and LLVM)
Message-ID:  <CAOtMX2jwu9bUDgM=jxtP5t794VUPjNx3GtrVgYqvGcSiZqHwVQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 1:50=E2=80=AFPM Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.d=
k> wrote:
>
> --------
> Alan Somers writes:
>
> > For example, libifconfig and the /dev/cam/ctl ioctls are both unstable.
> > A port that uses one of those and is built for FreeBSD 14.0 won't
> > necessarily work for 14.1.
>
> Isn't that also a problem today ?
>
> What difference does it make that src is distributed as a package ?

Not "a package" but "many packages".  The pkgbase concept builds a
separate package for almost every dir under lib, bin, sbin, usr.bin,
and usr.sbin.  So the problem will be that libifconfig and its
consumers will be distributed separately, whereas they are currently
distributed together.
-Alan



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