On 8/7/2025 10:17 PM, Colin Percival wrote:
I would like this idea, except for one wrinkle: I don't think it would work. In particular, packages installed from ports might depend on packages from the base system, so having a single tool which knows about both is necessary.
As someone already said "that was THE thing", clear separation for OS and ports. The fact that the FreeBSD release engineering lead is thinking along these lines, to me, is ... scary.