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Date:      Mon, 1 Jun 1998 03:16:23 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Studded <Studded@san.rr.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How about /usr/ports/kernel ?
Message-ID:  <19980601031623.27330@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <3571F2D2.684F8F26@san.rr.com>; from Studded on Sun, May 31, 1998 at 05:16:18PM -0700
References:  <199805301346.PAA29505@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <3571F2D2.684F8F26@san.rr.com>

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On Sun, May 31, 1998 at 05:16:18PM -0700, Studded wrote:
> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > 
> > Just looking backward, i realize that i am doing a lot of work
> > on the kernel, and so are others. So, how about adding a new port
> > category, /usr/ports/kernel, where one can find various kernel
> > enhancements etc which for any reason did not find their way in the
> > main source tree ?
> 
> 	I like this idea a lot personally. However I proposed the idea of a
> port for something not too long ago (cam, softupdates... something like
> that) and was told flat out that it could not be done. I hope whoever
> told me that was wrong. :)

It depend on what the code does and how it does it.  There are some
things that are easily portable between versions, and some things that
just about aren't possible at all.

Eivind.


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