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From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
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Subject: Re: ideas from netbsd
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 16:00:28 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <20412.815613205@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 5, 95 03:13:25 pm
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
> 
> > * another thing is the COMPAT_FREEBSD option (... and code) - i think
> > it would be a good idea to have something similar for NetBSD
> > (COMPAT_NETBSD) in FreeBSD - i think it should be relatively easy to
> 
> Uh.  Why? :-)
> 
> I believe the big reason for them having COMPAT_FREEBSD to run our
> packages, which is a perfectly reasonable thing.  From the opposite
> point of view, I can't think of *any* applications (save AFS, which
> isn't even an app) that run only on NetBSD and aren't available in
> FreeBSD versions.

That may be true most of the time, but consider my situation.  I have
machines running both BSD/386 and FreeBSD, and the software is
compatible enough that I normally don't need two copies of everything.
It would be nice to retain the compatibility, and it shouldn't be too
hard.  That doesn't mean I want a COMPAT_NETBSD and a
COMPAT_BSDOS--just that somehow people should arrange to stay as
compatible as possible.

Greg