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To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, sos@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: src/gnu 
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Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 07:37:37 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> over to ELF, this becomes viable again.  In the meantime, I propose the
> "ports" idea be used for GCC, CVS, RCS, groff, gzip, tar, and anything
> else in the tree from FSF.  Even non-GPL stuff like ncurses would
> benefit from this!  Comments?

I vote we start small on things that have historically required very
infrequent modification, like gcc, groff, rcs and gzip.  I'd hesitate
to jump straight into something like ncurses, for example, as it's
possible that we may be dinking around in there for awhile (Andrey
always has a dozen things he has to fix to make it 8 bit clean again :-)
and the ports model sucks for things you're trying to hack on more
frequently in collaboration with others.

					Jordan