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Date:      Sun, 3 Aug 1997 17:35:06 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued
Message-ID:  <199708030805.RAA13330@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970802135102.10798B-100000@Journey2.mat.net> from Chuck Robey at "Aug 2, 97 01:54:35 pm"

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Chuck Robey stands accused of saying:
> 
> Another thing to consider is the basic cleanliness of FreeBSD to tcl
> applications that don't arrive via the ports mechanism.  Our present
> environment is such that even a well written tcl app hasn't the least
> chance of configuring itself correctly.  In our respect for tcl, we've
> constructed a tcl-hostile system.

So far, the only problems I've encountered are with extensions which
use the usual bogus autoconfigure shared-library searching mechanism
and thus can't find the Tcl shared libraries.

I'm curious as to what other problems you've seen...

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