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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: EurOpen.SE: FreeBSD Presentation, trip report
To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 19:00:39 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <199612030053.QAA03012@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from "Jason Thorpe" at Dec 2, 96 04:53:49 pm
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Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2 Dec 1996 16:26:27 -0800 (PST) 
>  "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>  > core team and portmasters.  The core team has the same functions as
>  > ours and the portmasters are responisble for applications (which does
>  > not jive well with the statement that there is not ports/packages
>  > mechanism, but such are my notes)
> 
> That's almost completely wrong... The portmasters are responsible
> for the individual ports of NetBSD ... NetBSD/i386, NetBSD/hp300,
> NetBSD/powerpc, NetBSD/alpha, NetBSD/amiga, etc.  In the NetBSD world,
> `ports' has an entirely different meaning than in the FreeBSD world.
> 
> Having read Charles' slides before he presented them, I know he didn't
> say that the portmasters were responsible for `applications'.  There
> are, however, other key developers that are responsible for various
> application programs that are shipped with NetBSD (i.e. BIND, Sendmail,
> dhcpd, vi, etc.)

	ah....thank you.  my notes were a little blurred in that section.

jmb