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Date:      Sat, 02 Aug 1997 14:40:50 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        ade@demon.net
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued 
Message-ID:  <16420.870558050@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 Aug 1997 22:14:02 BST." <E0wulUw-00009C-00@genghis.eng.demon.net> 

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> I'm not entirely sure that it's going to be as simple as a set
> of Makefile diffs though :(  For example, if one considers the
> approach of a FreeBSD-base + FreeBSD-approved-packages system, then
> substantial changes would have to be made to the entire source tree.

Exactly, which is part of what makes it such a difficult subject to
wrestle with. :-(

I'm all in favor of better mechanisms for dealing with this, don't get
me wrong, I just think it's far far easier to say "we need mechanism x"
than it is to define and implement mechanism x. :-)

					Jordan



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