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To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? 
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Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 10:23:34 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199712060810.AAA20945@tao.thought.org> Gary Kline writes:
: 	If there are fewer than 10 gotchas, a merger still makes 
: 	sense to me.  If OpenBSD is too different from FreeBSD,
: 	NetBSD shouldn't be.  

shouldn't be a big deal.  however, in practice it turns out to be a
big deal.  there are at least 100 gotchas. everything from some ports
assuming i386, to missing libraries, to differences in how man pages
are stored, to ... well you get the idea.  there is more hair here
than meets the eye.

Warner