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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:58:22 +0530
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        Chris McNett <chrismcnett@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Just curious...
Message-ID:  <20000817095822.B4024@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
In-Reply-To: <F162Qq5pneeFUtLch9w0000176b@hotmail.com>; from chrismcnett@hotmail.com on Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 11:57:02PM %2B0000
References:  <F162Qq5pneeFUtLch9w0000176b@hotmail.com>

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Chris McNett said on Aug 16, 2000 at 23:57:02:
> Why does the ports collection insist on using BSD make instead of GNU make? 
> You'd think that the world could agree that GNU make is the more commonly 
> used of the two and should be the standard.

It doesn't insist.  With packages that require GNU make, it uses GNU
make (and installs that first if it's not there already).

Rahul.


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