[Bug 193106] New-port: emulators/linux_base-f20 : Add a port with the base libraries for Fedora 20.

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193106

Tijl Coosemans <tijl at FreeBSD.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |tijl at FreeBSD.org
         Resolution|---                         |Rejected
             Status|In Progress                 |Closed

--- Comment #32 from Tijl Coosemans <tijl at FreeBSD.org> ---
Closing as rejected.  The problem is that Fedora doesn't support older releases
with security updates long enough.  If we add a Fedora release to the ports
tree then at some point it will have to be removed again and that never goes
without complaints.  Users of older versions of FreeBSD may not be able to
update to a newer Fedora release because their kernel lacks new Linux features
that the new Fedora release needs.  Or worse, there's no FreeBSD release that
can run the new Fedora release.  It happened with the f10 ports.

If people want more recent versions of some Linux packages then rather than
trying to track Fedora it would be better to work on ports tree infrastructure
that allows us to build our own Linux packages.

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