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Cc: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: The strangeness called `sbin'
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If we want to fix thing make any port the replicates anything in
the base system install itself into its own heirachy.  Installing
into /usr/local make it impossible to select different version on
a per user basis.

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Mark Andrews, ISC
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: marka@isc.org