On 27 October 2012 10:34, Chris Rees <utis...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This "weeks" is making a assumptions that users 1. reads ports@ or 2. >> Update to security/errata patches in a timely manner or 3. Read UPDATING > > Quite. This should be at least a few months, otherwise we're making > unreasonable requests of our users, and yet again annoy them by > breaking older versions-- this time with no real benefit for > end-users.
+1 I would venture to guess that most of our users don't even read -announce. In addition there are non-ports concerns here. Many people probably have custom Makefiles they use for their own projects which may rely on existing behavior. -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
