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> > Ahh, but what happens when I have to run the same applications in the
> > same shell?  Do I have to modify my environment everytime I run a
> > different application?  Do I have to remember which 'emulated OS' the
> > application runs?
> 
> That's where the proposed "commercial ports" category would come in. Someone
> could provide wrappers for installation, executing, etc, which handle all the
> messy work of setting environment variables and so forth to get the thing to
> run, for things which require a 'tweaked' emulation environment.

Is there an echo in the room?  Isn't this what I initially proposed as a
better alternative to hacking up the uname(1) sources?



Nate

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