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Subject: Re: Error installing pine-3.96 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 31 Mar 1997 17:44:10 +0200."
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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 08:18:13 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Example - SSH. SSH is one of those things that folk always want the
> latest version of. We moved libz and libgmp into mainstream code,
> but our versions in the RELENG_* branch are not those that the port
> wanted. Making this work was _very_ dirty. Around these parts, most
> folk just gave up, said "sod the ports system" and rolled their own.
> Cock-ups abounded.

I'm aware of those specific examples, though I also think that our
propensity for bringing things like this into FreeBSD has waned in
recent months and I don't expect it to be such a big problem.  Why not
shoot for overall compatibility and cross the occasional ports->src
migration problem (and I hope very occasional or even I will start
yelling "Bloat!  Bloat!" along with the bloatist camp) when we come to
it?

					Jordan