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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:38:49 -0700
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/Tools/scripts patchtool.py
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 02:36:05PM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:11:11PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > No that is not the only reason -- did you even read the emails following
> > up to this commit?  The other was that / -> ::, which causes even longer
> > names that the orginial path.   
> 
> Why is this such a big deal?

It offends many of our sense of aesthetics.  And the :: change was a
deveration from the '-' and '_' that was orginially used.

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