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From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu>
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  > Apart from that, wouldn't it make more sense to use the "ports" paradigm
  > on them instead of checking in all the files ?  In theory we should be
  > running pretty much footool-9.3.tar.gz with a few patches, so why not
  > speed up our CVS-tree by actually not checking in the thousands of files

I agree with Poul.  The bmake paradigm for gcc just isn't working.
If the ports model fits better, we should use that instead.