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Subject: Re: Can't build ports on older FreeBSD machine
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At 09:19 PM 4/18/2005, Kris Kennaway wrote:

>Fortunately, make is not built from a port.  You need to update your
>version of FreeBSD to use ports on that box.

In other words, if one innocently updates one's ports one day, one
may suddenly find oneself to do anything with ports at all? This
seems to violate POLA.

--Brett Glass