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Date:      Tue, 03 Dec 1996 15:16:50 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ports INDEX browser update 
Message-ID:  <7561.849655010@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Dec 1996 23:52:22 %2B1030." <199612031322.XAA10533@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> 

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> > No, that'll be fine. :-)
> 
> Huh? You have got to be kidding; there's so much wrong with that I
> really don't know where to start. 8(    8)

Well, it sure beats creating your own interactive text object which
allocates a PTY in case the port actually tries to ask some questions
of the user.  What did you have in mind? :-)

> I know it does; I wish it _didn't_.  When you 'make clean' apsfilter,
> you nuke ghostscript4, jpeg, tiff, netpbm, png, transfig etc., and
> rebuilding a pile like that takes a _long_ time. 8(

There's an option for this, though I forget what it is - talk to
Satoshi.  This already came up and was discussed thoroughly. :-)

					Jordan



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