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From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
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On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

Hi,

> I need it as a free standing facility in another contract, and that got
> me wondering if it should be included in FreeBSD as a general tool ?

I think it's a very useful tool, especially for embedded systems and
other installations with similar contraints, but I'd like to see it
in ports rather than base (unless I am missing something and it
depends on some special features of base that, when changing,
could possible break it).

/bz

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