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Date:      Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:37:51 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@queasyweasel.com>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Package system flaws?
Message-ID:  <3D2BE44F.1D6094C0@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <FFFB5387-93BA-11D6-AACD-0003938C7B7E@queasyweasel.com>

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Jordan K Hubbard wrote:

> but when you start distributing those packages for 3 or 4
> different architectures (as FreeBSD is definitely not far away from
> doing) you also would like to not distribute 3 or 4 different copies of
> the same architecture-neutral bits if you can possibly help it. 

That's another argument in favor of having the metadata like
dependencies in completely seperate files from the binaries. 

Doug

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