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On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:25:42 -0500
Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been using FreeBSD since the summer of 2005, I still have the first 
> cd-r I used.  The fact that it's so easy makes me wonder why it hasn't 
> been done yet.  It's been almost five months.

	It's easy to build a repository, it's hard to build a secure public
repository.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>