Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 19:00:39 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: EurOpen.SE: FreeBSD Presentation, trip report Message-ID: <199612030300.TAA02612@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199612030053.QAA03012@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from "Jason Thorpe" at Dec 2, 96 04:53:49 pm
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Jason Thorpe wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Dec 1996 16:26:27 -0800 (PST) > "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org> wrote: > > > core team and portmasters. The core team has the same functions as > > ours and the portmasters are responisble for applications (which does > > not jive well with the statement that there is not ports/packages > > mechanism, but such are my notes) > > That's almost completely wrong... The portmasters are responsible > for the individual ports of NetBSD ... NetBSD/i386, NetBSD/hp300, > NetBSD/powerpc, NetBSD/alpha, NetBSD/amiga, etc. In the NetBSD world, > `ports' has an entirely different meaning than in the FreeBSD world. > > Having read Charles' slides before he presented them, I know he didn't > say that the portmasters were responsible for `applications'. There > are, however, other key developers that are responsible for various > application programs that are shipped with NetBSD (i.e. BIND, Sendmail, > dhcpd, vi, etc.) ah....thank you. my notes were a little blurred in that section. jmb
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