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From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu>
To: Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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Except for critical or FreeBSD specific problems, it is generally better
to report bugs and submit fixes to the 3rd party responsible for
contributed software rather than to hack away in /usr/src/contrib.  The
rationale for this approach is that over time many nuisance conflicts are
generated when our local changes aren't adopted by the "vendor". 
Subsequent CVS merges are unnecessarily messy. 

-Chris



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