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To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net>
Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? 
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Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 23:41:40 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <3488E112.4BD862AF@cpl.net> Shawn Ramsey writes:
: Why should the FreeBSD people make the port collection work with other
: OS's? If thats not what some people were suggesting, forget this post.

there are lots of reasons for wanting it.  the ports are more common
than they are different.  only a limited number of volunteers, etc.
however, as a practical matter, the number of differences between the
systems is large enough to cause enough problems that separate trees
really are a good thing at this time.

Warner