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Tom Evans wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net> wrote:
>   
>> I think portsnap should provide 'stable' - tested, known
>> working, security patched...
>>     
>
> 100%, and as soon as someone comes along who is prepared to do and pay
> for that, I think we would all enjoy it.
>
> Unfortunately, someone like that doesn't yet exist, so it is
> unrealistic to just expect that infrastructure to be there.
>   

Well as I was one of the people trying to raise funds for FreeBSD (for
general stuff, not specifically this) and as $employer will *not* be
adopting FreeBSD now the chances of having such just reduced.

-- 
Michelle Sullivan
http://www.mhix.org/