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Date:      Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:29:43 -0700
From:      Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        kientzle@acm.org
Cc:        libh@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BOF at BSDCon: FreeBSD Installer, Packages System 
Message-ID:  <52554.972617383@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org>  of "Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:46:05 PDT." <39F86DDD.98678B9D@acm.org> 

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> On the other hand, saying that "you can do anything with a package
> you can do with a port" is simple naivete.  People have tried
> it, it doesn't really work, let's move on.

Erm, but that's the entire point - it's SUPPOSED to work and if it
doesn't, that port can be considered broken because it doesn't build a
correct package.  Let's not just casually dismiss something which is
actually a hard-and-fast part of the functional spec before "moving
on" here either. :-)

- Jordan


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