[RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

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[Default] On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 17:30:10 +0200, Torsten Zuehlsdorff
<tz at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>I regularly seeing admins setting up different Ubuntu versions, because 
>at one you have PHP 7 and on the other MySQL 5.7, but not both at the 
>same Ubuntu version.

Which is one of the nice things about having central development
rather than a dozen forks being developed separately.  But it
still doesn't work perfectly, since we also have some skews like
that.