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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:45:39 +0000
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> Well, in those cases I guess our hapless user is simply screwed.
> Let's just hope he doesn't need to run any of the applications
> maintained by such people.

Why cant he just get the complied package from freebsd.org ? It's not
as if they are removing them (which is how you seem to interpret it) but
merely that newer versions of the packages will only build on newer
versions of the operating system. Which seems reasonable enough to me.

-pete french.

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