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Date:      Thu, 24 Oct 1996 05:12:58 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        erb@inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD pkg system vs Debian dpkg 
Message-ID:  <13360.846159178@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Oct 1996 10:49:27 %2B0200." <199610240849.KAA26783@insl2.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de> 

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> Hm, what about the point with mixing non-ports stuff and ports under
> /usr/local? Does the design address it?

The packages section doesn't know a port from a non-port; just stuff
that goes into a given directory hierarchy.  The idea is to also merge
the idea of distributions, packaged ports and 3rd party packages into
one global idea of "packages" for which a generic set of tools exist.

					Jordan



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