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To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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Subject: Re: NO_PACKAGE and NO_CDROM 
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Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 21:04:45 -0700
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Especially now, since we've got dozens of mirror sites all around the
>world, not to mention the people's own supfiles.  I propose we
>reorganize them to exactly two collections:
>
>  ports-all with release=cvs,current
>  ports-distfiles with release=current
>
>and get it over with. :)
>
>Satoshi

>From my own perspective, with my puny link to the net, the multiple
collections approach is far superior.  All of the problems that have
been brought up are simple administrative problems and I think that
solving them is much easier than breaking the old collections and
answering all the resulting email.

--
Justin T. Gibbs
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