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Subject: Re: what do you think ... should/could ports move to -> /usr/local/ports ? 
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Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 19:47:45 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Well, your reaction doesn't surprise me.  I didn't really expect
> anything to change, either.  But I'd hate to see us degenerate to the
> stage where we say "It's probably not going to happen, so let's not
> discuss it".

I think that deeming a discussion pointless because something
"probably won't happen" concerning it would be short-sighted, yes.  If
we rejected discussion on that criteria alone, traffic in -hackers
would be cut by 80%. ;-)

However, this would be more of a case akin to partitioning Ireland
into Protestant and Catholic factions in order to bring peace and
prosperity to the region.  A desperately naive and short-sighted
action guaranteed only to usher in a long period of argument and
bloodshed, not peace and prosperity.

					Jordan