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Date:      Thu, 3 Oct 2002 12:17:53 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>
To:        Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
Cc:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Marc Recht <marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de>, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: expat2 in the base system?
Message-ID:  <20021003191753.GA56857@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <007f01c26ae2$09b11ab0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
References:  <3632.1033651189@critter.freebsd.dk> <007f01c26ae2$09b11ab0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>

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On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:37:36AM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> Well, playing the devil's advocate -- isn't this the type of discussion the
> preceeded the introduction of Perl into the base system, the introduction of
> which created such a mess that we finally took Perl out of the base system
> in -CURRENT?

The created mess that caused us to take Perl out of the base system is
that it cannot be cross built.  This library is C/C++ code; so we can
easily cross compile it.

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