FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

[Igor Mozolevsky]

On 17 January 2012 23:01, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> If you'd like to see:
>
> ... more frequent releases? then please step up and help with all the
> infrastructure needed to roll out test releases, including building
> _all_ the ports. A lot of people keep forgetting that a "release" is
> "build all the ports for all the supported platforms".

I don't know this so I'm asking: does fixing a port to work on a
pending release involve substantial changes (as in functionality cf.
cosmetic) to the "core" or just patching the port to work with the
core? If latter, maybe it's worthwhile uncoupling the two (core OS and
ports)?


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Igor M. :-)