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Date:      Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:44:26 +0000
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Python 2.7 removal outline
Message-ID:  <20210326154426.7c7079f2@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2103261347370.85788@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 13:55:33 +1100 (EST)
Dave Horsfall wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Mar 2021, George Mitchell wrote:
> 
> >> [...] it is really not for everybody to use overlays in current
> >> state (overlays are poor documented at least). [...]  
> >
> > Until this thread I had never heard of them.                  --
> > George  
> 
> I can't remember the last time I used overlays (certainly with CP/M);
> I didn't know that FreeBSD even supported them (why bother when
> you've got VM?).

I doubt that meaning of overlay is going to be relevant. I'd not heard
of it either, but from looking in ports/Mk/ it seems to be a way of
modifying port builds.



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