Is pkg quarterly really needed?

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[Default] On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 15:57:02 +0100, krad
<kraduk at gmail.com> wrote:

>quarterly does seem very cautious, maybe a monthly might be a good
>alternative. 

I have to STRONGLY disagree.  

Right now, pkg isn't smart enough not to use version-skewed bits.
Which means that, for those of us trying to use freebsd and the
ports/pkgs as *tools* wherewith to do other work, we have to run
pkg upgrade -fy every cursëd quarter, not just when the minor
number changes.  With crappy access to the inet (something true
of most of the USA and Canada outside Really Big Cities) that
costs half a day or more.  

If it were every month, I'd with unconsolable regret abandon
freebsd for linux (ptui!).  (Right now, it's quite hard to resist
the paranoid suspicion that maybe this crazy, anti-real-user
behavior is a subtle way to kill freebsd altogether by driving
away the non-hobbyists.)