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Date:      Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:05:45 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RELEASE_X_Y_Z branches/tags maintained??
Message-ID:  <20041025230545.GA93317@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0410251656220.14978-100000@pancho>
References:  <1098697521.666.30.camel@moonlight> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0410251656220.14978-100000@pancho>

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On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 04:58:18PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Roman Kennke wrote:
>=20
> > Maybe, if there is _enough_ interest, somebody (starting with me??)
> > could start a separate (from FreeBSD) project, that aims to maintain a
> > stable FreeBSD ports tree.
>=20
> I'd rather try to talk you into helping out on our existing PRs :-)
>=20
> Alternatively, if having a completely stable ports tree is a showstopper
> for you, pkgsrc is supposed to run on FreeBSD.  But as someone else has
> noted, you're basically going to be doing a 100% reinstall to do that.

Not to mention that if you go with a smaller project you risk not
actually getting those updates in a timely manner anyway due to the
aforementioned manpower problems.

Kris

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