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

[Grzegorz Junka]

On 23/06/2017 12:32, Baho Utot wrote:
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> On 06/23/17 07:48, RW via freebsd-ports wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 22:03:35 -0400
>> Baho Utot wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> And yet you do seem quite exceptionally accident prone.
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> Oh gee more insults,  is that all you have?
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> I guess that is encourgement for me to help FreeBSD.  NOT.
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> I see many posts about FreeBSD needing help and new help leaving just 
> as fast.  I wonder why when there is no incentive to work with others 
> how that works.  Ya name calling helps.

I think you explained well enough what changes/improvements in 
maintaining of the ports tree you would like to see. Can you be more 
precise what help and from whom you would need in order to implement it?
Grzegorz