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From: "Artem Tepponen" <temik@egartech.com>
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> From: Terry Lambert [mailto:tlambert2@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 12:08 PM

> Artem Tepponen wrote:
> > Unfortunately this doesn't solve third party packages problem well.
> > Note: ports do have freebsd maintainers but packages may not (well,
> > there should be possibility for standalone thirdparty packages).
>=20
> It doesn't solve the third party binary only kernel components
> problem, either.  8-).

Hmm, I guess this problem won't be solved by packages system only 8-)
Stable binary APIs is not a strong side of open source projects....

Artem Tepponen

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