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In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 28 Oct 2001 21:43:55 PST."
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On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 21:43:55 PST, "David O'Brien" wrote:

> > When you're contributing patches back to the author, that makes sense.
> 
> But we don't have to carry the patches around in the port.
> Make the patch to configure.in, mail it off; commit the patch to
> configure -- save some dependancies for the poor ports builder.

That's how I see it as well.  Sorry if the brevity of my message left
you thinking I meant something else.

Ciao
Sheldon.

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