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Subject: Re: Getting /usr/ports everywhere... 
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jkh@time.cdrom.com writes:
> I've been thinking about this for awhile, and I'm wondering whether or
> not 2.2 might be a good time to unleash /usr/ports as a distribution
> tarball as part of the release.
>

seems like a good idea to me. And this would help eliminate the "I
grabbed this port from the server and can't get it to work. Oh BTW I'm
running FBSD 1.0" :) I.e. trying to use ports for -current under an
earlier version.

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