On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 05:17:48PM +0200, Michelle Sullivan wrote: > Mathieu Arnold wrote: > > +--On 3 septembre 2014 16:36:29 +0200 Michelle Sullivan > > <michelle_at_sorbs.net> wrote: > > | Mathieu Arnold wrote: > > |> I still don't see what you have to say about what EOL mean, it's *End Of > > |> Life* meaning after, it is dead, and won't exist any more. > > |> > > |> > > | Ahh so all those Windows XP servers are dead and don't work anymore... > > > > Not at all, but you don't update them any more. > > > > > Actually you do, but it does nothing... just like freebsd-update on any > EOL release... > > Microsoft didn't release a patch that would change the base system so > you can no longer install any software... They just stopped providing > updates, then later stopped providing security updates. Same for FreeBSD and pkg_*. Stay with status quo, use pkg_* with the last tagged version of the ports tree that works with pkg_* or switch to pkg and be happy like the rest of us.
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