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Originally Posted by ai-danno
the installation to -stable and still use these same packages?
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The short answer is
"yes".
There are no underlying library changes between
-release &
-stable, so using
-release packages on a
-stable system should present no problems.
As you already mentioned, the practice of providing security updates to the
-stable ports tree is currently discontinued. This topic periodically flares up on
misc@ inciting the masses, & didn't impress a member here when it came up a few weeks ago:
http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=507