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On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:25:48 -0400
Alex Merritt wrote:


> I am using DragonFly BSD, and "geom" does not seem to be in the
> package repository. I mailed here assuming it is not a distro-specific
> characteristic.

Dragonfly is a fork of FreeBSD 4, not a distro. The current stable
branch of FreeBSD is 10 so there are significant differences.

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