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Originally Posted by jggimi
More admin skill is required -- synchronization of ports / packages is left to the admin to deal with.
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Blindly upgrading/installing a new snapshot has to be tempered with reading the mailing lists for known issues. As an example, the recent addition of rthreads is currently having some fallout with respect to the building of some ports:
This will be resolved in time, however, for those wanting/needing these third-party applications, one may decide following upgrading/installing to restore backups of the previous installation.
You do make regular backups, right? Those running
-current should be taking such precautions when running newly developed code. Things happen.