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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 11:40:46 +0100
From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To: Steve Wingate <steve@velosystems.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Why is TCP wrappers in ports?
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On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 10:20:28PM -0700, Steve Wingate wrote:
> Why is tcp wrappers in ports since it's in the base system? It appears
> to be the same version. Is there some additional functionality to the
> port?

History.  It's not just tcp wrappers, either. There's quite a few
packages that have done their time in the ports tree before being
imported into the core system.

It also means that, should you be running an older version of FreeBSD
without the core version of a package, you can still use it as a port.

	Matthew

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