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Date:      Sat, 12 Oct 2013 11:08:01 +0200
From:      Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox@gmail.com>
To:        FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to disable staging support in ports tree universally?
Message-ID:  <CAJ_iqtYJNz1qZ6hyP7E97XUGX4jCO=4O1ZSFybGW8KwO%2BQz%2BPA@mail.gmail.com>
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References:  <20131012055953.GA4352@icarus.home.lan> <5259051D.7060205@FreeBSD.org>

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Hello,

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Staging is here to stay.  There's no way of "turnng it off."  If the

Why? Why can't it be turned off?
What is the technical reason / reasoning behind this design decision?
And why is staging special, compared to all other features that has
been introduced to FreeBSD in the last few years?

-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen



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