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To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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Subject: Re: FBSD 2.1 
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Hmmm.  Then why do the FreeBSD CD's ship with ZIP on them?  It isn't
> from pkware, but rather the info-zip mailing list, but Unisys might
> still be an issue.

Well, the redistribution conditions seem reasonable enough to do this,
I guess, but not so reasonable that I'd want to rely on them for our
package format!  Zip can always be pulled out of ports with a "Sorry!
Didn't know!" but anything that the package tools depend on will, of
necessity, have to go into /usr/src so I'm not faced with a
bootstrapping problem.

If I'm really wrong about zip, I'm willing to revisit this.  I would
really be estatic at the prospect of a random-access mechanism for
the pkg tools!

					Jordan