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Date:      Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:26:50 +0100
From:      Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
To:        Allan Bowhill <abowhill@blarg.net>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bug in ports howto question
Message-ID:  <p0600200abbeaca55e413@[10.0.1.2]>
In-Reply-To: <20031126065109.GD55245@kosmos.my.net>
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At 10:51 PM -0800 2003/11/25, Allan Bowhill wrote:

>  In the practical day-to-day sense, there is a lot of overlap. But to say
>          systems administration == programming
>  is false.

	Just like that the skillsets between systems administration and 
programming are mutually exclusive.  In truth, there is a lot of 
overlap between these two skillsets.

>  The analogy was not mine, and neither was that point. I did not say that
>  a person could not possess both skills.

	That's what mutually exclusive means.

>  My point was the skills themselves technically are exclusive to
>  one another. Not that someone couldn't have both.

	If the skills are mutually exclusive, then one could not have both of them.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
     -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+
!w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++)
tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)



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