From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 22 13:07:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA05862 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:07:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA05822 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 20:07:02 GMT (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA13714; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 16:06:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 16:06:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Harlan Stenn cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/6353 In-Reply-To: <13686.893275117@brown.pfcs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Harlan Stenn wrote: > amd is old, am-utils has a lot of new functionality (and bug fixes). > > am-utils is not (currently) a port. > > NetBSD and OpenBSD come with am-utils, not amd. > > That's a short list... I think I said the same thing when I said 'essentially the same thing seperated by a few years.' 'a few years' implies changes due to development and bug fixes. As I understand, whoever decides to do the acutal work of making it a port or putting it in contrib is the one who determines which to do. /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message