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Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 16:54:32 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: State of the ports collection
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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > But the error handling path of any program is not one of them; if
> > you are optimizing something other than the success path, there is
> > something fundamentally wrong with your program or problem statement.
> 
> So how about you do more than the average person's part towards
> reducing the amount of evil in the world, by fixing broken ports and
> submitting patches.  I can give you a list of the broken ports.

I have a slow link.  As long as the ports aren't the size of
"Mozilla", I would be willing to use my slow link to hack some
of them to not directly reference the error lists from libc.
This is an exercise that's more about typing speed than thinking,
anyway.

-- Terry

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