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Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 02 Aug 1997 17:27:48 -0400."
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Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 08:12:36 +1000
From: David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>
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>Meta-ports!!  Their time has come!
>~
>[meta-ports, for those who have forgotten, are just normal
>ports, but whose only purpose is to build other ports.]

You lost me. :-)

How is the structure any different from the current *_DEPENDS
system?

Regards,
David

David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/