Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:45:32 +0000 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package? Message-ID: <d873d5be0910272245l387b9353qfed7b48fdc9738a1@mail.gmail.com>
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Lars Eighner wrote: >Evidently my package database is corrupt in some way, because it shows m4 as >an installed port. I wonder how that happened, how to fix it, and if it >will bite if I leave it alone. The GNU version of m4 is a FreeBSD Port, devel/m4. The base system m4(1) was originally based on BSD 4.4 Lite m4, and then on a modified version from OpenBSD. It is supposed to be standards-compliant, but it does not support all GNU m4 extensions, so it is not used as often as devel/m4 is in Ports. So your package database is probably okay in this regard. b.
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