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On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 05:28:01PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> code in the base tree gets fixed by people making sweeping changes
> but things from ports often do not.

By 'sweeping changes', I take it you mean to src?

And if by 'things from ports', I take you mean that ports break on
-current all the time, due to changes in src?

mcl