xfce 4.8pre3 preview

Tue Feb 1 19:09:26 UTC 2011

On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 18:09:26 +0100
Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn at googlemail.com> wrote:

> The ports tree isn't tied to a particular version of FreeBSD, e.g.
> there is no ports-8.2 or ports-CURRENT.  You always get the latest
> version of ports when you update the tree (assuming you use a cvsup
> mirror).

Ahh...that I did not know. So, it's similar to Gentoo tree (which I
used before Arch) or like Archlinux - rolling 'release'. :-)

> AFAIK PC-BSD uses its own ports packaging technology so I'm not sure
> that you really get support for the most recent ports tree with it.
> Since I don't use it myself I could be wrong.

PBIs go along with ports tree and I plan to provide some missing PBIs
(for easy install) and thereby help a bit (PC)BSD community.

Sincerely,
Gour

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