On 6/3/2012 11:14, Erich wrote:
What I really do not understand in this whole discussion is very simple. Is it
just a few people who run into problems like this or is this simply ignored by
the people who set the strategy for FreeBSD?
I mention since yeares here that putting version numbers onto the port tree
would solve many of these problems. All I get as an answer is that it is not
possible.
I think that this should be easily possible with the limitation that older
versions do not have security fixes. Yes, but of what help is a security fix if
there is no running port for the fix?
I feel like I'm missing something. Why would you ever want to go back
to an old version of the ports tree? You're ignoring tons of security
issues!
And if a port build is broken then the maintainer needs to fix it, that
is the solution.
I must be missing something else here, it just seems like the underlying
"need" for this is misguided (and dangerous from a security perspective).
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