Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

[Etienne Robillard]

On 06/03/2012 06:14 AM, Adam Strohl wrote:
> On 6/3/2012 11:14, Erich wrote:
>> What I really do not understand in this whole discussion is very
>> simple. Is it just a few people who run into problems like this or is
>> this simply ignored by the people who set the strategy for FreeBSD?
>>
>> I mention since yeares here that putting version numbers onto the port
>> tree would solve many of these problems. All I get as an answer is
>> that it is not possible.
>>
>> I think that this should be easily possible with the limitation that
>> older versions do not have security fixes. Yes, but of what help is a
>> security fix if there is no running port for the fix?
>
> I feel like I'm missing something. Why would you ever want to go back to
> an old version of the ports tree? You're ignoring tons of security issues!
>
> And if a port build is broken then the maintainer needs to fix it, that
> is the solution.
>
> I must be missing something else here, it just seems like the underlying
> "need" for this is misguided (and dangerous from a security perspective).
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Technical debt perhaps counts when upstream vendor "new versions" breaks 
things unexpectingly ?

just sayin

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