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Subject: Re: It's not Rust, it's FreeBSD (and LLVM)
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On 9/3/24 15:36, David Cross wrote:
>
>> On Sep 3, 2024, at 11:32 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>>
>> What is FreeBSD ?
>> -----------------
>>
>> Forget Rust for the moment, I promise I will come back to it.
>> ...
>> ...
>> ...
>> Poul-Henning
>>
>> PS: I overdosed on release work 25+ years ago, and have not been
>> paying them much attention since, but if this is what the pkgbase
>> crew has been pushing for more than a decade, we all owe them an
>> apology.
> As a quick note I constantly build freebsd from source. I do it for all of my systems for all updates, all patch releases.
>
> I may be an outlier here, but my impression from email, forum posts, and redit threads suggests it is at least somewhat common.
>
> There are ways to marry both worlds (like poudriere, which I also use to manage my empire), but I’d like to not completely discount the usecase; at the very least the ease of buildworld is important for the releasee engineering process
> itself.
Same here.
Not as much anymore as I used to, but it is still my preferred way (a 
build) to install updates.