why 100 packages are evil

[Matthew Seaman]

On 23/04/2016 17:19, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> In message <alpine.OSX.2.00.1604222009300.15755 at minnie.bitsea.ca>, Lyndon Neren
> berg writes:
> 
>> With freebsd-update, an announcement comes out that says 'update'!.  So we 
>> do.  Move from 10.2-p11 to 10.2-p12.  There is a very clear track record 
>> of why and how this happened.
> 
> Is freebsd-update going away as result of the new packaging ?

Yes.  It will be replaced by 'pkg upgrade' -- as far as I know, that's
the plan for 11.0-RELEASE.  I have no idea if anyone intends to run
maintain freebsd-update in parallel for a transition period, but
freebsd-update will ultimately be superceded.

	Cheers,

	Matthew




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