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Date:      Fri, 05 Dec 1997 23:41:40 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net>
Cc:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3.0 -release ? 
Message-ID:  <199712060641.XAA14258@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Dec 1997 21:22:26 PST." <3488E112.4BD862AF@cpl.net> 
References:  <3488E112.4BD862AF@cpl.net>  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971205233523.16807U-100000@picnic.mat.net> 

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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



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