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Date:      Sun, 17 Jun 2001 21:15:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: convert libgmp to a port? 
Message-ID:  <200106180115.VAA51232@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010617063845.E53DA39E9@overcee.netplex.com.au>
References:  <20010616201135.A60010@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20010617063845.E53DA39E9@overcee.netplex.com.au>

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<<On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 23:38:45 -0700, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> said:

> telnet* should never have used libmp in the first place,

Yes, it should have, since telnet is historic BSD software and libmp
is the historic BSD arbitrary-precision-math library.  That is also
(one reason) why we should continue to supply a libmp, regardless of
what code it is actually backed with.

-GAWollman

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