Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

[Erich]

Hi,

On 02 June 2012 PM 2:56:01 Chris Nehren wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 14:11:06 -0400 , Paul Mather wrote:
> > I'm not sure what the solution is for the end user.  I know I get
> > somewhat leery of updating my ports if I see a large number of changes
> > coming via portsnap (like the 4000+ that accompanied the recent libpng
> > upgrade) and there is nothing new in UPDATING (which, happily wasn't
> > the case with the libpng upgrade).  Usually, I wait a while for the
> > dust to clear and an UPDATING entry potentially to appear.
> 
> If you're concerned about things breaking, don't follow the bleeding
> edge. This seems to be common sense.

is there a second version of the ports tree available?

What is the response of the list if you want to install a new package with you old ports tree?

Erich