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On Dec 3, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Chuck Robey wrote:

> Need to do some python work, using a lot of FreeBSD's base libs, and  
> I was wondering, if any ports have swigged the FreeBSD libs?  I'll  
> do it if I must, just trying to save me some work.
>

Not understanding your use of the word "swigged", all I can say is  
that the ports do not touch the system libraries except in the rare  
case of things like openssl which have the _option_ to install on top  
of the system ssl libraries.