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Originally Posted by Randux View Post
I don't have any issue with an OS going to a big change in XOrg etc. What I did object to was the *way* they did it. All of a sudden the ports tree required a whole new XOrg. That is not smart and it broke a lot of stuff. It should have been handled as a major version and not just thrown in in the middle of a release.
FreeBSD doesn't have a branched ports tree. There is only the one ports tree, that works on all versions of FreeBSD. As such, there is no concept of "major release" or "mid-release" or anything like that. There's just "the ports tree".
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