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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:00:19PM -0400, Robert M.Zigweid wrote:

> Why is this cross-platform set of tools, being made less compatable=20
> than the origainal package?

Because this wonderful cross-platform set of tools need to be munged
so that you can have multiple versions installed simultaneously
(different ports need different versions).

Kris


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