Frederic Cambus <f...@statdns.com> wrote: > On a more serious note though, building from ports was the only way > to have -stable packages before we started to offer -stable binary > packages with OpenBSD 6.5, and it is still the only way for users of > architectures for which those packages are not provided. It's thus > reasonable to assume most of our users are familiar with the ports > tree hierarchy terminology.
I have no idea where you are coming from. The vast majority of our users did NOT care about newer ports, and stuck with the provided packages through the 6 month release cycle. The % of users who build ports is low single-digit.
