Lifetime of FreeBSD branches

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue May 24 04:15:43 PDT 2005


On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 08:17:37PM -0700, Jon Dama wrote:
> It might be beneficial (pipe-dream perhaps) if the all the BSDs coalesced
> around one port/packaging system.  I hear that netbsd's port system has
> the metadata necessary to support different OSs and different OS versions
> within one coherent system.

Not likely to happen, although pkgsrc does support running on FreeBSD.

Kris
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