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To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: bin/1643: Support for NetBSD in bsd.port.mk 
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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 20:36:30 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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In message <199609191607.JAA05817@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>, Jason Thorpe writes:

>Well, most NetBSD'ers I talked to objected to the name "ports", since in 
>the NetBSD world, a "port" is then the kernel is made to run on a new 
>platform :-)

but, but, but.. that's an "architecture"... :-)

>Hence the run-time decision in the Makefile ... FreeBSD can keep the name 
>they like, and NetBSD can use the name that like.. Everyone's happy :-)
>
>Is that really the only sticking point in the changes being accepted?

You know, we don't really have any problems with this, why should we ?

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