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Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Proposal for another category in INDEX: common_deps
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Matthew Seaman wrote:

> Again, the idea here was not to change anything in the ports 
> themselves: just what was presented in the INDEX,

Ok, then I think it's incumbent on you to explain what the benefit
would be.

> and then mainly as a resource to make easier the lives of the
> people that write ports management software.

Well, I'm one of those people, and portmaster ignores the index file
altogether, for whatever that's worth.

Doug

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