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To: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, zingelman@fnal.gov,
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Subject: Re: sysinstall resetting USA_RESIDENT=NO 
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Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 16:06:08 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>
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> No, he's right.  sysinstall is definitely broken in this respect, and
> I'm definitely interested in your patches to fix it. :)

One quick fix would be to disable the USA_RESIDENT hack entirely
and just let users edit their make.conf files appropriately.

When this bug was first reported, I looked at a couple of fixes to it
and found them to be generally icky, adding to sysinstall's global
variable bloat (which I'd dearly love to remove) or otherwise further
obfuscating code which is already too obfuscated as it is.  It was
on my TODO list to simply shoot the damn thing in the head.

- Jordan


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