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Date:      Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:14:05 -0800
From:      perryh@pluto.rain.com
To:        m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NOT_FOR_ARCHS considered harmful [was: with the cvs history? trying to help INDEX builds.]
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Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

> Finally, all this testing the CPU architecture and the OS version
> makes no sense at all for ports that don't install any compiled
> binaries, such as shell scripts.

Unless said script runs something CPU- or OSversion-specific, e.g.
to perform operations that are supported only in recent geom, or to
report on the configuration of ACPI or the new USB subsystem.



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