On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 12:13:26PM -0500, Mouse wrote: > > we should not have to patch and rebuild apps! > > Only buggy apps, apps that already needed patching and rebuilding and > NetBSD just formerly let get away with their incorrect assumptions.
IMO there is no point to break backward compatibility just for the sake of correctness. Smoooth upgrades are a major selling point for NetBSD. -- Emmanuel Dreyfus m...@netbsd.org