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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
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On (2002/09/02 12:43), Will Andrews wrote:

> I am not moving them out.  I am trying to solve the problem that
> people have to upgrade to get package tools that can use bz2'd
> packages.  This is a real problem.  Besides which, it's a Very
> Bad Thing(TM) that ports are not branched but the pkg tools are.

So make one-time upgrade packages available for the package tools. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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