> Q: I want to use this cool piece of software that's in the FreeBSD
> ports system. But I can't build it on my 3.x-stable system. Why not?
>
> A: Ah, sorry. The ports system only targets -current, trying to get it to
> work with -stable is too much work. If you want to be sure of using the
> ports system successfully you need to be running -current.
> </advocate>
>
> Or was this policy reversed recently and I didn't notice (always a
> likely possibility).
That policy was reversed back in August 1997 (2.2.6 or so). Ever since
then Ports track -STABLE and until recently, Satoshi was only building
packages on -STABLE machines.
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