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"Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> To be honest, I haven't seen porteasy, but my feeling about #3 above is
> that it's really really hard for an automated system to get right all of
> the time.

Yes, it was hard to implement, but I'm confident that porteasy gets it
right. Feel free to prove me wrong.

DES
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