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From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
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Subject: Re: RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE
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On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:17:56PM +0200, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote:
> but life is already pretty hard for people wanting to use
> XFree86 (no packages for KDE, GNOME, etc...)

We simply don't have the horsepower on the build cluster, or disk space on
the mirrors, to support this.  It takes 5 days to build i386 sources as it
is, and nearly a month to build the others.

mcl