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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_output.c
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> > 4.0-RELEASE + upgrade package = "4.x-STABLE, as far as the port
> > collection is concerned".  It's supported, and this is the way it's
> > been for years.
> 
> So to use the ports system you must upgrade your system every three
> months? That's just ridiculous, nobody in the "real world" upgrades
> their systems that often, including the project itself.
> 
> Effectively we're saying that we don't have a ports system that you can
> use in a production environment because it only works for 1 or 2 months
> after installation, after that your system's too old to be supported!

Nope, it only means that if you update port system every several days then
you also have to update your ports system. Nothing prevents users in
production environment from sticking with ports three corresponding to
the release which they are running.

-Maxim

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