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To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: libh src/ import 
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> > > Perhaps I don't know enough about what libh does (I thought it was a
> > > GUI library), but is it really beyond the realms of possibility that
> > > someone might want to use this for another purpose than the installer?
> >=20
> > Yes, replacing dialog(1) calls in the ports tree for example.
> 
> That seems to settle the issue of whether it should go in release/,
> then.

FWIW, I think that putting libh in the base system is a Very Bad Idea.

It should be a port, like sysinstall should be a port.

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