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

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Fri Jun 23 11:48:49 UTC 2017


On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 22:03:35 -0400
Baho Utot wrote:


> The pre-compiled packages is what drove me to build the entire system
> as it gave me a broken system that would not work and upon getting it
> to function would/**/spontaneous reboot.  My hand built packages
> stopped that.
> 
> I have built run LFS for 10 years.  I created a packaging system
> using rpm for LFS ( it is on github ) .  I worked for turbolinux as a
> beta tester and worked with the folks that kept KDE3 alive, so I am
> some one that knows something.

And yet you do seem quite exceptionally accident prone. 


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