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Date:      Sun, 18 Feb 2001 10:08:21 -0700
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Summary of List of things to move from main tree to ports
Message-ID:  <3A900185.54C97B10@softweyr.com>
References:  <3A8E47DC.FAF7F962@elischer.org> <200102181155.f1IBt7957868@gratis.grondar.za>

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Mark Murray wrote:
> 
> > I remember how ill I felt the first time I encountered a Unix system with
> > no C compiler...
> 
> The idea here not not "no C Compiler" or in fact "no _anything_". Those
> are release-engineer policy decisions today, and customer choices
> tomorrow.
> 
> _That_ is the point.

Right.  For instance, why would you want to cram a C compiler on a flash-
based firewall?  Or even a disk-based one?

-- 
            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/


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