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To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
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	Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Summary of List of things to move from main tree to ports
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"Matthew N. Dodd" wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Mark Murray wrote:
> > I'd really like to see the wall between "base" and "ports" broken down.
> 
> base system
> layered software packages
> 3rd party software packages
> 
> Humm... I seem to recall another OS that did this sort of thing -20- years
> ago.

I remember how ill I felt the first time I encountered a Unix system with 
no C compiler...

> 
> I think the real issue is that not everything maintained in the source
> tree should be installed by default.  We've already got a fairly coarse
> system that does this via the various Sysinstall packages.


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