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            Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> writes:
: On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 01:46:30PM -0500, Coleman Kane wrote:
: > This is only my personal opinion. I think the WITH_XXXX_OVERWITE_BASE
: > make options help substantiate it, however.
: 
: I've recently updated the tcpdump port to fix a number of issues. If
: people could confirm that the OVERWRITE_BASE option still works there,
: I should be most grateful.

For something as simple and useful as nc, I'd rather see it in the
base system than as a port.  It is useful enough to enough people that
the extra care and feeding it will get in the base is worth the extra
burdon it places on us to do that.  It doesn't duplicate things in the
base system, and provides functionality that's useful to many people.

Warner