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Date:      Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:35:32 -0700
From:      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@current1.whistle.com>, GNATS Management <gnats@freefall.freebsd.org>, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/1643: Support for NetBSD in bsd.port.mk 
Message-ID:  <199609191835.LAA07709@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On Thu, 19 Sep 1996 20:36:30 +0200 
 Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> wrote:

 > >Well, most NetBSD'ers I talked to objected to the name "ports", since in 
 > >the NetBSD world, a "port" is then the kernel is made to run on a new 
 > >platform :-)
 > 
 > but, but, but.. that's an "architecture"... :-)

Heh .. not in all circumstances... The amiga, atari, mvme68k, and hp300 
are all m68k architectures... but slightly different platforms...

You say potato, I say potato.  :-)

 > >Is that really the only sticking point in the changes being accepted?
 > 
 > You know, we don't really have any problems with this, why should we ?

Oh, ok ... I just sort of had the impression that it was ...

BTW, 64-bit clean libmd/md5 are on their way... :-)

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