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To: Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@btinternet.com>
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Subject: Re: Portupgrade Utility
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Another answer that actually has some content is that portupgrade depends
on Ruby, so there is no way portupgrade can be in the base system unless
Ruby is also there.  The odds of adding yet another interpreter to the
base system is highly unlikely.

On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Dominic Marks wrote:

> On Sunday 06 January 2002 8:13 pm, Pat Wendorf wrote:
> > What's the chances it will ever show up as part of the base system?
>
> Very low indeed. (I would hope).
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> > Please reply to all, as I'm not subscribed to stable at the moment.
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> > Thanks,
> >
> > Pat Wendorf
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