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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by mekster on Sunday January 12, 2020 @06:18PM (#22030425)
Apparently businesses don't use rolling distro.

You don't want your PHP version to endlessly get updated during your operation when you build your app at a specific version.

It would mean not only you have to take care of distro update gotchas but you have to go through all the breaking changes the language introduces.

Stick with LTS. Rolling is for enthusiasts, though Arch does have put decent efforts on their wiki but I did find errors on minor pages that didn't make it work as written.

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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by celticmusic on Sunday January 12, 2020 @07:52PM (#22030957)
> You don't want your PHP version to endlessly get updated during your operation when you build your app at a specific version.

I think we'll figure out how to upgrade in the 2-3 years of support PHP has for each version. Trying to compare this to arch's rolling release style is bananas.

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