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From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
To: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
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Subject: Re: linux-base 6.2 vs  linux-base 7
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 03:43:32AM +0000, P. U. (Uli) Kruppa wrote:
> 
> 
> > ... Most people just say "it doesn't work, linux_base-7
> > sucks".  The reality is that linux_base-6 will go away because we are
> > phasing in linux_base7 so we have to fix what we can to make the ports work
> > with it whether its modifying the linux_base7 port or the ports that depend
> > on it.  This is going to be on a per port basis, there is no simple fix to
> > fix all the problems in this massive upgrade process.  We cannot continue
> > until people start substantiating problems with a fresh linux_base-7
> > installation instead of complaining how it works.
> To give a good example I am going to
> 1) sacrifice the experimental part of my home-network to
>    setting up a system with linux_base-7 and to
> 2) spam this mailing list with with questions about it  :-)
> 
Please cc me. I may accidently delete your spam with all the rest of 
the spam on this list :)
 
-- 
David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>

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