Patrick on Nostr: I used to envy #FreeBSD for its split between the base (stable) and ports/packages ...
I used to envy #FreeBSD for its split between the base (stable) and ports/packages (more or less rolling). After fiddling around with FreeBSD, and as somebody using Python quite a lot, I start to wonder how to have a stable installation that includes a stable Python (as an example) - package pinning? Is that really any better than the concept of Linux distros that make sure that *all* your packages are stable and in sync?
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