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Date:      Sat, 17 Feb 2001 04:35:39 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Summary of List of things to move from main tree to ports 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102170432471.884-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <200102170821.f1H8LV952295@gratis.grondar.za>

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On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Mark Murray wrote:
> I'd really like to see the wall between "base" and "ports" broken down.

base system
layered software packages
3rd party software packages

Humm... I seem to recall another OS that did this sort of thing -20- years
ago.

I think the real issue is that not everything maintained in the source
tree should be installed by default.  We've already got a fairly coarse
system that does this via the various Sysinstall packages.

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