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From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
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Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> There aren't enough seconds in the universe to test all the viable 
> combinations for one single release.

Can you explain what would be accomplished by testing all or even a
fraction of the possible permutations of base package combinations?  We
don't do that for ports.  Other operating systems don't do that for
their base packages.  Honestly, some of us are wondering what exactly is
behind some of these concerns regarding base packages.

Roger Marquis