I am not talking about 8 to 11 in one go. With 8.x I experienced the first literally broken source update and a few came after that. I've switched from Linux t

I am not talking about 8 to 11 in one go. With 8.x I experienced the first literally broken source update and a few came after that. I've switched from Linux to FreeBSD in 1999 because I was fed up with chunky/broken binary updates. One used to be able to compile 3 versions ahead on a running system and boot into a working, clean setup. I am lazy, of course I tried (and succeeded most of the time). But since 8 even the standard practice of migrating one major version at a time as well as updates from latest n.x to m.0 was broken for people who did not drink the "pkg and freebsd-update!" kool-aid. My allergies to that are raid controllers not supported by GENERIC kernel and a general preference to include into software only what I need - make.conf makes that really easy and maintenance is a breeze simply because we're not hit by as many security issues.