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From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Major changes since 6.2?
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> What are some of the major changes to ports/ported applications since 
> 6.2-RELEASE (01/2007)?  I am in the process of putting together a talk and 
> would like to mention some of the highlights.  The main ones are xorg 7.3, 
> KDE 3.5.7 and GNOME 2.18.3.  Have there been any other major changes of 
> interest to end users over the past year?

I think the fact that OPTIONS now works as one would expect it to is 
pretty major. Of course I also feel the fact that portmaster has evolved 
to be fairly feature-complete in the 19 months since I first committed it 
is pretty major, but I'm biased. :)

Doug

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